I've been thinking a lot lately.
Whether it is with girls, Professors, employers, male friends or casual acquaintances the initial gut feeling i get about a person or situation is almost always ... 99% of the time right.
Yes. You can not judge a book by its cover and all that.
I've had 2 big breakups so far in my life and i can't help but admit that i knew there was something wrong at least a month or two before it happened. These are not obvious red flags that i could have logically evaluated and conducted a decisive course of action on. But i felt it in my gut.
Whenever i felt that an interview did not go well, despite the interviewer forwarding promising shit like " You without doubt have a very impressive resume and we'll be sure to contact you within the next week." ... I never got a call back. When my gut feeling told me that the interviewer liked me, even when logically the position was a longshot, i ended up getting the job.
An old friend of mine recently told me that a girl i had a crush on back in 8th grade got married. I was like "Oh wow good for her". She continues and tells me that the same girl actually had a huge crush on ME until we graduated High School. Deep down i knew it. Her body langauge, the way she talked to me. Stealing looks when she thought i was not noticing her ... asking me to help her with Physics homework.
Senior year of college me and my boys started hanging out with this popular wrestler kid. Everyone thought he was cool. He was but there was something about his attitude that was slimy and ... just not right. He threw out a cool facade but seemed like the kind of guy who would hit on your girlfriend while you went to the bathroom. I dismissed my suspicions since he was nice to me & always referred to me as "The Boss". 3 months later he banged one of my friends's GF. I could not believe that one of the first impressions i created about him was that of a girlfriend poacher.
How reliable is your gut instinct? Are we better off dismissing our logical minds while in social situations? Is our gut the ultimate measuring stick when it comes to gauging people's actions or reactions towards us? Is this the reason women are said to have a "sixth sense"? Because they are more emotional and more likely to follow their gut instincts?
Discuss.
Whether it is with girls, Professors, employers, male friends or casual acquaintances the initial gut feeling i get about a person or situation is almost always ... 99% of the time right.
Yes. You can not judge a book by its cover and all that.
I've had 2 big breakups so far in my life and i can't help but admit that i knew there was something wrong at least a month or two before it happened. These are not obvious red flags that i could have logically evaluated and conducted a decisive course of action on. But i felt it in my gut.
Whenever i felt that an interview did not go well, despite the interviewer forwarding promising shit like " You without doubt have a very impressive resume and we'll be sure to contact you within the next week." ... I never got a call back. When my gut feeling told me that the interviewer liked me, even when logically the position was a longshot, i ended up getting the job.
An old friend of mine recently told me that a girl i had a crush on back in 8th grade got married. I was like "Oh wow good for her". She continues and tells me that the same girl actually had a huge crush on ME until we graduated High School. Deep down i knew it. Her body langauge, the way she talked to me. Stealing looks when she thought i was not noticing her ... asking me to help her with Physics homework.
Senior year of college me and my boys started hanging out with this popular wrestler kid. Everyone thought he was cool. He was but there was something about his attitude that was slimy and ... just not right. He threw out a cool facade but seemed like the kind of guy who would hit on your girlfriend while you went to the bathroom. I dismissed my suspicions since he was nice to me & always referred to me as "The Boss". 3 months later he banged one of my friends's GF. I could not believe that one of the first impressions i created about him was that of a girlfriend poacher.
How reliable is your gut instinct? Are we better off dismissing our logical minds while in social situations? Is our gut the ultimate measuring stick when it comes to gauging people's actions or reactions towards us? Is this the reason women are said to have a "sixth sense"? Because they are more emotional and more likely to follow their gut instincts?
Discuss.