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What role should instinct play in major decisions?

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The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews

Near-verbatim recurring Academy prompt about judgment under pressure.

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Cheryl Strayed Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
What I’ve really learned in my 43 years is that the body does not lie; the body actually tells you what’s right and wrong. If you get a sinking feeling in your stomach or a heavy heart about something, you shouldn’t do it; and if you get a lifting, light feeling in your body, you should.
Recorded Tina Essmaker, The Great Discontent, 10 July 2012 source ↗
Alan Cumming Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter
It’s a gut thing. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.
Recorded Catherine Cohen, Interview Magazine, 10 July 2019 source ↗
Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
I think to a certain respect, yes. But also, you try to follow the best guidelines you have, the constitutional by-laws. You have to interpret them from time to time, but in the final analysis, in some instances, it would be a gut reaction. But a gut based on preparation and study. Not just a fly-by-night gut reaction.
Recorded Rancho Santa Fe, California, Academy of Achievement, 15 May 1991 source ↗
Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
But the thing I think that thrust me possibly into the public consciousness, I had just been elected Bishop of Lesotho. I had gone there to become bishop and I went for a retreat. I don’t know — I mean, I don’t know what happened but it just seemed like God was saying to me, “You’ve got to write a letter to the Prime Minister.” And the letter wrote itself.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

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