Monday, October 21, 2013

Gut Instinct

Gut Instinct.

I'm afraid that I am not very much of an expert on gut instinct.  Every single time i go with my gut, I end up doing the wrong thing.  Yet when I go against my gut it always seems to be that I should have chosen to go with my gut.  Its quite unfortunate this conundrum I'm in.  I can relate this post to fantasy football and school.  I am a very active member in the fantasy football community, and i play in a league with my friends.  There are some of my friends that know much more about fantasy football than others, so I often go to them for advice.  Unfortunately their advice always seems to conflict with my gut instinct.  This causes a huge dilemma for me as I am a very indecisive person.  Because they are the experts, I usually follow their advice, and it turns out that my gut instinct would have been a much better option.  After this happens for a while, I start going with my gut, and ignoring my friends' advice.  I feel confident in my choices, but it turns out that my friends' advice was correct, and my gut was wrong.  There has never been a happy outcome in this situation.

It pains me to say that the same exact thing happens to me during school.  I take a wide variety of classes in order to challenge myself, yet one factor remains the same through all of my classes, there are tests.  I usually am quite prepared for the tests, I study ahead of time and I do lots of review work.  When it comes to test day, I easily answer the questions I know, and I try to exercise smart testing techniques by narrowing down each question to two answer choices.  I feel confident enough that I can still be successful my increasing my odds of choosing the right answer.  Alas, my conundrum arises yet again- I can't decide whether to go with my gut, or to go with the other answer.  No matter which option I choose I always end up getting the wrong answer.

My natural shortcoming is that I am extremely indecisive, and it certainly doesn't help that the world seems hate me with each choice I make.

5 comments:

  1. Your gut instincts about fantasy football are what makes March madness so much fun. And why I always get destroyed by the animals they always let make picks.

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  2. LOL! I can relate, my gut instincts tend to fail me on tests as well. Very funny.

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  3. I totally feel you on the guessing conundrum for tests. So rough.

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  4. Sounds like you may be experiencing a #stomache in ya gut instincts. Head up boy. Give it #time u are #blessed.

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  5. oooooo this is good werk delpretty. I often find myself overthinking the question on a test if i spend too much time on it,so i just go with my gut instinct .

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