Honestly, my gut is much less welcoming to the idea of me visiting McDonalds than my mouth.
My gut says “I will feel bad”, my mouth screams “tastebuds demand an experience!”
My gut says “I will feel bad”, my mouth screams “tastebuds demand an experience!”
Make no mistake, the term self-control doesn't just apply to food instincts, it applies to people instincts too. Your instincts want you to go around assuming that ugly people are bad and pretty people are good, but if you avoid every uggo you're gonna miss out (especially in tech) and if you trust every handsome salesman you meet you're gonna get rolled. Thoughtfulness and self-control are always warranted.
But I often find that the “gut” feeling is more often right, and the unexplainability of it comes from the fact that it takes hundreds of little things into account and models future interaction outcomes and presents the feeling you will have in the end as ”gut feeling”. Your own black box of neural networks in your gut.