#510 Just one more step.

What am I scared of right now?

What are the chances that that scenario will come true?

What would happen if that scenario came true?

And what would happen then?

And then?

And then?

Is it really that bad?

Do I have the resources to deal with it?

Is this truly a catastrophe, or will I be fine either way?

Keep asking*, “What would happen then?”.* Look past the initial fears and challenges. And more often than not, you’ll realize that this too shall pass.

A memory is what we decide to remember from an experience – and what we decide to delete and forget.

Intuition is the instant hunch we get after we’ve repeatedly created memories from experiences; the moment we don’t need the conscious memory anymore.

A small (or unrepresentative) sample size leads to inaccurate intuition.

If I’m betrayed three times in my life and have created strong memories around that, my intuition whenever meeting anyone else may be that they’ll betray me too. Three bad experiences have shaped, and skewed, my relationship to billions of others.

How to develop accurate intuition?

The more memories we create, the bigger the “sample size” for our intuition to emerge from, and the smaller the weight of “outlier events” (like being betrayed).

The more deliberately we create these memories, the more deliberately we hone intuition.

Create more memories. And create them deliberately.

I guess all I really want to say today is:

There’s something you’re doing great at.

There always is.

Can you see it?