Should You Always Trust....

[agchristie]

Your first instincts? What examples,given two choices,can you give when you got something right or wrong?!

[Baldric]

My first Marriage!
:-(

[Peaspeculiars]

Marmite. My instincts said 'don't eat that!' - they were right.

;o)

[Baldric]

Kinda similar to mi ............. perhaps not!

[agchristie]

Peaspeculiars - so you went with your instincts but do i take it you still tried it or were you basing it on someone elses reaction?

[royfromaus]

No.

Right...I knew I wouldn't win the lottery.

Wrong...I chose the wrong numbers.

Hence I didn't win the lottery.

[agchristie]

Oh dear Baldric - instinctive attraction but not to be in the long term....

[Peaspeculiars]

Hiya agchristie, I tried marmite yes, even though it smelt awful, because I like to try tasting food before making up my mind for definite if I like it or not.

I trust my first instinct all the time when driving i.e. whether to stay or pull out, whether to risk the traffic being busy one way, or go the scenic route home etc etc.
First instincts aren't always good though, so catching a hot iron can be a mistake!

[agchristie]

Good point P about the iron in particular
Instinct is a strange thing.Sometimes I get strange pangs to do,or not to do something,other times I dont.A weird feeling like deja vu....

[agchristie]

Well put Roy,lottery,always more in hope than expectation...

[Peaspeculiars]

First instincts are generally overruled as you get older through a learned reaction instead. Take two very young children playing - if one hits the other, the first instinct is to defend themselves and they will hit back. When they are a little older, the child who is hit will not hit back as they have learnt that it is wrong, so their first instinct is overruled by either no reaction or crying in frustration. As adult's we take on another learnt instinct after being hit, our first instinct then is to call a 'where there's blame, there's a claim' lawyer.
We have learnt over time to stop the first instinct reaction and to not catch the hot iron so to speak.

[TWR]

I am a very trusting person that sees no harm in anyone It's a pity I never sussed out the *** that cost me a job I loved doing, that was caring for persons with L.D.

[agchristie]

I understand P but what if the issue facing you is far less clear cut i.e do i cut the red wire or the blue wire to save the world?

[agchristie]

TWR sad story,not always easy is it...

[Peaspeculiars]

In that case then yes, I'd have to go with my first instinct. It confuses the bejeezes out of me why instincts feel as strong as they do, but I guess if you had no other learned information or experience to go on and the choice was to do one thing or the other, then yep, you'd cut the wire that you felt was right at the time.

I guess that could be attributed to part of natural selection (? I don't know, just guessing here) but if a human didn't know of or see another human eat a berry on a tree, who then didn't survive, they would go with their gut instinct and eat the berry. If they had no other info to go on, they would go with their gut feeling not knowing if the berry was poisonous or not.

[Peaspeculiars]

(blimey, big storm heading this way, might have to log off in a min - apologies in advance if I have to go suddenly) :o)

[agchristie]

Yes,very frustrating when you get no kind of instinct at all.If you tend to go with your first instinct then I always think 'well,I didnt talk myself out of something' and shouldnt be too disappointed at making a wrong choice.What is instinct though from a physiological sense,is something in particular happening? Chemical reaction? Why dont we always get it? ....

[agchristie]

Hope you miss it P! Dry at the moment in the north-east though we have had heavy rain earlier...

[Peaspeculiars]

oops sorry agchristie, huge storm hitting Nottingham now, will log back in a bit and try to answer :o)

[agchristie]

No probs,batten down the hatches!

[TWR]

Agchristie, I hope the saying in this area comes about, " what goes around comes around" I am waiting for that daily concercing this evil ***.