How much does instinct factor into your decision making?

I really dislike those who answer seemingly undesive but, my answer is both. At my job, emotion plays a part into my decisions. Some good, some cursed from the start but, all are indeed, my own. If you go with your gut, that means your decision is fueled from experience thus, enables you to plan carefully for future endeavors.

I often make important decisions very quickly, my family thinks I act on a whim. I don’t know if it’s instinct or not, but I figure that my brain is processing all the data much faster than I can consciously follow. My decisions are usually good.

Depends on the decision. If my gut tells me it’s good, I back it up (or refute it) with pure logic. My gut’s usually right.

Depends on what I’m deciding and the consequences if I’m wrong. I like going totally with instinct sometimes. Mine are pretty good.

In reasoning human beings instinct is sublimated and replaced by decision making-they are sort of mutually exclusive.

So what you are calling instinct is probably not instinct at all, but a lesson in life that you learned earlier, and it wound up in your subconsious.

I almost always go with my gut. I may not jump right in, but even if I study on something, I still almost always go with my gut.

And not because of it’s increasing size.

As I get older I let instinct take over a big part of the decision.

Lots

Instinct backed by years of experience. I’m also smart enough to know when I don’t know something. In these instances, I’ll take more time, do research, reason, then decide.

One thing I do infrequently (rarely?) is ask other people’s opinions. Just not my style.

I depend on instinct a lot when making decisions because the final decision just has to “feel” right.

I’m starting to go with my instinct more. When I think about all of the dumb mistakes I’ve made that set me back, part of that was me knowing it was a bad idea but going along with it anyway.

I use both. I’ll research and critique a variety of ideas/information, but instinct will come into play. If after all that research my instincts are saying, no or yes, I’ll either delay or if it’s not an important decision, allow my gut to lead. If it’s an important decision, I’d go with the researched option or keep delaying until I know why I’m feeling antsy about that choice.