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#013 - Isabel on Intuition, Vulnerability & Humility

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Apr 5, 2023
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ANECDOTE

Quitting VC To Pursue Writing

  • Isabel left a venture capital job after building a writing practice and flirting with a writer's lifestyle on a European trip.
  • She quit to focus on writing after a year of gradual trust-building in her intuition.
ADVICE

Build Intuition By Practicing Small Acts

  • Start small: follow tiny intuitive impulses to build trust in your gut before making big changes.
  • Balance intuition with basic safety and rational checks so it doesn't put you or others at risk.
INSIGHT

Intuition Encodes Personal Wisdom

  • High-level life choices benefit more from intuition than pure rational optimization.
  • Intuition embeds uniquely personal knowledge that generic rational rules cannot reproduce.
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