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Instinct or indoctrination?
We taste a new dish. We like it or dislike it. We call it being individual. A matter of personal taste.
We meet someone new. We instantly trust or mistrust them. We call it instinct. Gut feel. Intuition.
We encounter a new idea. We instantly trust or mistrust it. Instinct, again. Gut feel. Intuition.
Are we right or are we wrong? Mostly it doesn’t matter. If your job is not about food, then who cares? If you’ll never see the stranger again, so what? If the new idea makes no difference in your life, then why bother finding out more?
This approach to life works most of the time for most things. We get by pretty well. Often we are right, occasionally we are wrong, but it doesn’t make too much difference.
But sometimes it really matters a lot.
Like when trusting that stranger really matters because he’s driving your bus. Or he’s talking to your children.
Like when the food might make you ill.
Like when an idea might make you poor or rich, happy or unhappy, sick or well.
Then you have to ask yourself, “Is my instinct right or wrong?”
Apparently, snap decisions made in areas you are not a true expert in, may not be wrong but they will certainly be shallow. You haven’t explored those instincts. So you don’t know much about them.
A lot of people will say instinct is beyond the rational mind, so you can’t find out more. They also think of instinct as being pure, not affected by society or its messages.
But that’s not so.
As long as you think those two things, your instinct may be affected by your conditioning …
You instinctively mistrust a stranger because he’s got ‘a shifty look in his eyes’.
Yet you’ll trust another stranger because he seems friendly and harmless and he looks you in the eye.
Well, Ted Bundy, mass murderer of young women, was just like that. He even pretended to be crippled or on crutches to disarm his victims. And it worked.
Salespeople know this and they are trained to make a good impression. And you can end up buying what you shouldn’t. Or passing over something with real value because the sales pitch didn’t grab you.
What is the solution?
It’s to explore how you feel about something, and why.
Trace back your beliefs to where they came from. Find out if they are really true, or if it’s just that everyone thinks so. Does anyone have a reason to want you to think that way?
Instinct can be a valuable tool. And truly pure instinct will lead us to the truth. But instincts are not pure, and we need to know how they get manipulated and misled. Only by examining our gut feelings about things will we know whether we are thinking for ourselves … or whether we are playing accidentally into someone else’s hands.
Tip:
When it comes to investments – any investment – our instincts do matter.
There is a tool that can help you to authenticate your instincts when it comes to property investments and that is the Property Pro Investment System.
I have used this tool since 1987 and all I can tell you is that the tool is more accurate than my instincts, when it comes to property investments.
Before you make any property investment decisions - do the calculations. The calculations will answer your questions. No more guesswork or instinctive decisions but cold hard facts that will put you on your path to wealth.
You can thank me later.
Hannes Dreyer
Wealth Creation Mentor
 

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