Dr. Trisha Pasricha

It enters this chaotic rhythm called arrhythmia, where there's no discernible pattern.

And it turns out that that discovery where you could actually potentially use your stomach as a lie detector, it got an asteroid named after me.

But more importantly, it taught me something really profound about the gut and the brain, which is this.

The gut can respond to external information often so much quicker than your conscious brain can process.

And some people call that a gut feeling.

But here's what we get wrong about gut feelings.

We often assign gut feelings, we label them as being good or bad inherently.

And a gut feeling is neither good or bad.

It's a scientific phenomena.

It's a physiological signal.

And it's simply a message.

And that message is this.

the stakes of the situation are higher than you realize.

That's the message.

It's not good.

It's not bad.

And we are the ones who give it this label and assign it some prophetic value that it's telling me something.

But actually, I think if we're looking at this just on a scientific level, one of the most powerful tools we can make, we can use, and something that we should learn is that

Instead of just impulsively acting on what we're calling a gut feeling, we should learn to pause, listen to that gut feeling.

And instead of asking, is this good or bad?