Our brain works by handling a lot of unconscious information behind the screens, without us realizing what it’s doing. However, consciousness overestimates its ability to control and we think we can govern absolutely anything. Only sometimes do we realize that something is going on in our minds, that something is wrong, or that someone doesn’t like us.
“Buried deep within each of us, there is an instinctive and sincere conscience that offers us, if we allow it, a safer guide. “
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In this sense, researchers such as Kanheman and Tversky have differentiated two modes of operation from the human mind: an analytical and premeditated road and an automatic and intuitive secondary route, which works by mental shortcuts or by academic associations.
That’s why we can form a person’s image in an instant, in just 6 seconds, we can call it sixth sense, but evaluating something as good or bad in less than a quarter of a second can also cause us problems. as we’ll see later.
However, quickly discriminating who may or may not be dangerous to our physical or emotional integrity, who is upset, sad, happy or frightened is an important pillar for our well-being and survival.
There seems to be reason to say that today’s women have a greater ability to quickly discriminate and read other people’s emotions, whether someone is faking, lying or if a couple really loves each other.
Handling these signs becomes an automatic action, and as we age, we explore our intuitive dexterity more, so in romantic relationships the power of intuition is more important because, although we don’t know exactly what makes us think someone loves us or not, we’re generally not confused. Therefore, it seems that the heart has reason to be guided by this sixth sense.
Intuition simply becomes the recognition of situations, types of people or consequences that can lead to our behaviors and those of others, but intuition can also become dangerous, and this is where too much feeling and not thinking enough can be dangerous.
As life’s apprentices, we acquire an intuitive skill that allows us to effortlessly make judgments and act quickly; however, we can get confused and, in fact, we do it often.
These same shortcuts that our intuition gives us can lead to very serious mistakes, we can see a clear example in the information about cops acting with negligence, because they believe that an individual is dangerous because they are African, Hispanic or Arab. we get carried away with what we feel without realizing that the person next to us is hurting us.
Therefore, we must repress ourselves and try to mentally develop hypothetical situations in which our prejudices may not act well, that is, we must not despair when we realize that we are acting on reflective assumptions or feelings without too much importance. reasoning There is no mystery; The important thing is how we act when we realize it: it is important that feelings do not dominate us and that we look at them and compensate them when acting.
President George Bush was right that terrorists can kill with almost any weapon. After 9/11, many people experienced intense anxiety while flying in airplanes, although the probability of being in a bus accident is 37 times greater than the probability of dying in an airplane. accident, not to mention a terrorist attack, people have started driving.
As a result, there has been a sharp increase in traffic fatalities, tripling the normal fatality rate. So, guided by these intuitive fears, the terrorists of September 11 continue and will continue to kill from their graves.
There are many reasons why we are more afraid of dramatic death phenomena (such as a plane crash) than the phenomena that quietly claim the lives of millions of people a year, such as smoking. This is one of the greatest dangers of being emotional actors, because it can blind us and prevent us from making decisions in a coherent way. If we prepare for it, we can face the greatest weapon of terrorists: exaggerated fear.
It is essential to give our intuition its rightful place: it must be taken into account to the same extent that we must confront it with reality, being an emotional actor carries its risks, but we must not forget that critical thinking and a more intelligent attitude It begins to bear fruit when we listen to this inner self, which silently yells things like: don’t let that person get close to you, don’t be afraid to change your life, let yourself be guided by your desires and do something for what you want?
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