Many Don't Have an Intuition Problem… It Might Be a Courage-to-Obey-It Problem

**Matthew Gottesman** (0:02)
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Welcome to episode 812, Many Don't Have an Intuition Problem. It might be a Courage to Obey It problem.
Listen, I get you, I get it. It's something I'm constantly working on all the time. The intuition comes in, you have a feeling, an inkling, a knowing, something just overtakes you. You don't even maybe have tangible evidence. Intuition really is, you just know. Do you listen to it? That's the question. Do you listen to your intuition? And if you don't often, that's fine. Can you start practicing listening to it more? That's the next question. And as you always hear me say, can you close the gap between intuition and execution? It's an interesting thing to look at our lives and know we have this beautiful free will, and it's great. Free will is the ability to learn who we are and the choices that we make. And if we don't like some of the choices that we've made, how do we continue to make better choices? And how do we listen to our intuition? How do we listen to God? And we know what we need to do. And I've been talking about this even in the last episode. We know what we need to do. Why is it then that we sometimes just don't do it? Is it short-term satisfaction or gratification? Is it fear of not having all of the variables for the thing that we need to do versus the thing that we know is comfortable? Is it ego? What is it? That is a relationship for each person to take into consideration. Why, if you have the knowing coming through, are you not listening to it? And what's interesting is, listening to it gives us the fruit we're looking for, gives us the things that we want. And maybe it's just that we're taking a step we hadn't thought of, and it's a different and it requires a different set of our intuition. And yes, maybe you let other people down. And yes, maybe it makes other people upset because you're like, you don't have the time because you're following the different thing.
That's why God over society, because God's so kind about it. Society, you know, when they don't get what they want, they can be a little upset sometimes. Not all, of course not, you know. But that's why I'm always promoting grace. Like everybody listen, we need to give people grace to go figure out who they are in this world. So why you already know what to do, the question is whether you'll do it. In this episode, I want to talk about why most people hear their intuition clearly, but maybe choose not to follow it. I also want to talk about how the gap between knowing and doing is almost always a courage gap, not a clarity gap. We are clear. We think we're confused, and that was what I was talking about in the previous podcast. We think we're confused, are we? I don't think so.
I think it's a lean in and do it.
I also want to talk about why obedience to your own knowing is one of the hardest practices you'll ever develop. And I didn't, you know, when I was writing this out, I was like, do I really want to use the word hardest practices? Because I think it's different for each person, you know? So let's have room for nuances. Maybe it is easier for you.
I said that it's a tough practice because we are bombarded with so much information and inputs, and we get disconnected, and we get all of these things. Plus, let's not forget that we're human, and then, you know, that voice can be loud. That's like trying to steer you out of your knowing. So the practice can sometimes be difficult, right? I also want to talk about how ignoring your intuition repeatedly trains you to disrupt the very thing designed to guide you. Ignoring your intuition repeatedly trains you to distrust the very thing designed to guide you. Everybody tells us to trust our gut, trust our instincts, trust our intuition, trust our knowing. And how many times are we betraying ourselves? I mean, every one of us has got to be nodding to this. And it can be in anything. And it's different for each person. Some people, it's in relationships. Some people, it's in money. Some people, it's in creativity. Some people, it's in, you know, friendships or just knowing in general what they need to do. We all inherently know what we need to do. A big reason I made the quarterly workshop challenges inside of my Substack, and I call it re-write, and it wasn't like, and I always said writing is not just an art, it's a tool. It was because each quarter expands on making space for us to tap further into what we know we need to do in particular areas of our life or particular seasons of the year, because we do know we're just bombarded with an outside, loud world. It is very loud out there. And so when we do these quarterly, I call them like marathons, it's like 30 days locked in.