Name: Your Intuition Is Way Stronger Than You Think
Uploaded: 2024-09-27T14:00:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Your Intuition Is Way Stronger Than You Think' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Your Intuition Is Way Stronger Than You Think' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-27. Transcript available.

where does our intuition and our gut instincts come from that's one of my
favorite questions
is it really yeah i love intuition it's like my superpower oh yeah yeah um so
basically because
it's so cool it's kind of this it's like this ghost that's in us a little bit
yeah kind of yeah
the ghost of wisdom or something i mean andreas merchant also said to me that
things like extra
sensory perception they're not woo woo that he was actually um comparing that
to the fact that most
people don't know we have the second nose he was like there's science about it
we just haven't
discovered it all yet yeah so intuition was a bit like that it people didn't
because they couldn't
see it it wasn't tangible they didn't really take it that seriously like i've
been teaching at mit for
over 10 years now and 10 years ago senior leaders would say that's not a sense
i would use at work
you know i'm not gonna use that for hire or fire but then actually the older wiser
guys would say
that's exactly the one i use for hire or fire because you know i've learned
over time to trust it
yeah um so i honed my intuition by journaling and reading over my journal and
writing down every
decision that i made if like logic told me one thing and intuition told me
another and i decided to
trust my intuition more and more you really mapped it out yeah um i think i was
naturally quite
intuitive but sometimes i was afraid to trust it when i felt like something
else was the right thing to do
logically um so what we need to live our normal life is called our working
memory and it's stored
in the outer cortex of the brain and then our sort of beliefs and thought
patterns you know sort of
what we were discussing earlier on that's in systems in the limbic part of the
brain which is the shape
and size of your clenched fist so obviously yours is bigger than mine and the
cortex is around it and then
through a process called heavy and learning which is named after the neuroscientist
donald heb
because you can't remember everything that you've experienced in your life but
you have experienced
it so that information like neurons that fire together wire together get stored
deeper in your
spinal cord and your gut neurons and that's why intuition is sometimes called
gut instinct
so that's why you kind of feel right there you kind of go there in your brain
like what is my gut
telling me to do yeah like butterflies in your stomach tells you that you're
nervous right yeah um but the
sense of like this is the right thing for me to do or this is the right person
for me to date that
might you might not feel it viscerally but you'll just get that sense hmm yeah
it's yeah because like
over time it's like yeah you have to believe that your intuition gets honed as
well because of you've had
experiences yeah but it can also actually a really important point is that
neuroplasticity can be a
bad thing if you repeatedly go for you know people that it ends up being a
toxic relationship and you
have a breakup that drags out and damages you and then you don't really heal
and you just go back into
a similar type of relationship you're gonna kind of that's your intuition
telling you the wrong thing right
right right but you're following it yeah so you could actually you could mold
your intuition
negatively as well yeah oh wow like obsessing over a breakup that's that's
neuroplasticity yeah
yeah i used to do that man that was the worst
Thank you.