When people follow their intuition, they consistently pick exactly the right next thing for their development — even when they can’t explain why. Joe shares how he was drawn to hacky sacking in high school, which unknowingly treated his sensory processing issues through cross-midline coordination exercises. Meanwhile, the smoking he was trying to “improve” away through willpower lasted into his 30s.
“I will watch people and they, if they’re just following their intuition, man, they will just pick the next thing… and it’ll be like, oh my God, they picked it perfectly again.”
This isn’t mystical — it’s the right brain at work. The right hemisphere doesn’t describe things in words but communicates through intuitive hits. If you look for a rational explanation, you’ll forego the intuition that’s actually operating. Like an oak tree that grows without needing to, our nature is to grow, learn, and evolve. It only stops when someone “kicks the love of learning out of us.”
The challenge: try not to improve for two weeks. Don’t learn anything, don’t grow, don’t have any realizations. People who try this find they have more realizations than ever — because they stopped forcing the process.
Related Concepts
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- How you do it determines if you do it
- Searching for purpose avoids it
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