I agree with Isis Kali -- it's all intuition vs. ego, and they can be so hard to tell apart!
I have a decision to make every morning. I drive an hour to work, but I can either take one direction, which consistently has traffic in the morning, or another direction, which can have road blockages and closures.
One day the weather was great and I was trying to figure out which way to take. Ego says, I don't want to wait in traffic! Besides, the weather is clear. There's not going to be any blockages the other direction. My intuition said, heck, just deal with the traffic. After the traffic, it's a pretty drive, anyway.
I could not tell what my intuition was telling me. Was it telling me that the traffic was going to be so bad I shouldn't go that way? Was it telling me that the drive after the trafficy part was so pretty I should go that way?
I decided to go that way anyway. The traffic was normal. After I got to the office, I found out that the other way was completely blocked -- not because of weather here, but weather elsewhere. That road goes past a ski resort, which that day happened to be the only one in the area that was open. It was sheltered from the wind, and the other resorts were closed due to wind advisories. There were so many skiers on that little road going to the resort that it was bumper to bumper the entire way, which I never would have guessed because it wasn't windy where I was!
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