When Should You ‘Follow Your Gut’?

Our subconscious ideas and feelings can be enormously helpful—or hugely destructive—depending on the conscious thinking that informs them.

The idea that you should “follow your gut” or “listen to your intuition” has become popular in Western culture and the self-help industry of late. Figures from Warren Buffet to Jordan Peterson tell us to “listen to your intuitions” and “go with your gut feelings,” implying that listening to your emotions is more effective than thinking deeply about your…