: 30 Intro

• Opening remarks

2:00 Intro to Topic

• You are responsible for success of your organization
  • Trusting your gut has gotten you this far
• Trusting your gut can lead to wrong decisions
• Dive into decision making and understanding importance of what is going on when making those decisions

4:24 Jump into “gut feelings” and science behind topic

• “Trusting your gut can lead you astray”- B
• Gut and brain are connected in different ways
• Importance of digestive health
  • People who were working out still not healthy
  • Emotional and mental health
• Your gut has 500 million neurons and that is why you get butterflies and strong emotions
• GABA: helps control your feelings of fear and anxiety
• Getting back into shape is just as much nutrition as it is exercise

8:00 perspective on topic for business owners

• “Do a gut check on yourself to understand the importance of why gut decisions are good” - B
• A lot of people make gut decisions but not making solid ones because their gut is not healthy
• “Intuition comes from making pattern recognition”-M
  • Comes from patterns we recognize and make decision from

12:24 Common Sense

• “Common sense is a myth”-M
• Common sense is based on experience
• Intuition is based and calibrated on your experiences the same way mine is based and calibrated on mine and the more experiences I’ve had and the better I paid attention to those the better and more accurate my patterns is going to be.
• It is important to pay attention to patterns above subconscious
  • That is how we can improve our gut health
• Understanding that intuition is a compilation of historical data

16:34 Understanding why gut health is harder to understand now

• We are experiencing conditions and operating under new conditions
  • Because of pandemic
• No familiar experiences to this that we can draw from
• If we are self aware then we would notice this is a different condition

17:30 inbound info

• In the 90s only getting hundreds of ads
• 10,000 a day and that was from 2017 study
  • This is skewing pattern recognition
• Our gut decision is less effective because of all the noise and inbound info we are experiencing
• “Trust your gut if you calibrate it” -M

20:27 Age of internet

• Previous to the age of internet, gut decisions worked
• Now that there is internet we are loaded with trillions of ads skewing our gut decision and intuition
• How to calibrate gut:
  • Awareness of the problem
  • Be aware of the decisions you are trying to make and evaluate them. Articulate, stop and figure out why you got there
  • Check assumptions to see if it is really like the situation you thought of
    • Can stop if not working or proceed with decision making
  • Make a decision based on the objective of reality now that you’ve gathered facts

28:10

• Relate to scientific method and college self

30:29 - Overview/End remarks

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