Waverly Deutsch

I think that just to comment on what you said, I think one of the biggest myths that we've created in the world of business is, hey, it's not personal. It's just business. Oh, yes. Businesses are made of people and people are human and they have emotion. And I also think we're learning that a lot of our emotional sense is tapping into some

I think that just to comment on what you said, I think one of the biggest myths that we've created in the world of business is, hey, it's not personal. It's just business. Oh, yes. Businesses are made of people and people are human and they have emotion. And I also think we're learning that a lot of our emotional sense is tapping into some

subconscious knowledge that is actually leading us in a better direction than the purely analytical. So no entrepreneur has enough data to make a purely analytical decision. You have to go with your gut. The one time that I accepted a job based on the logic of it

subconscious knowledge that is actually leading us in a better direction than the purely analytical. So no entrepreneur has enough data to make a purely analytical decision. You have to go with your gut. The one time that I accepted a job based on the logic of it

The title, the career path, the money, the benefits, the moment in my life where I needed to establish myself in Chicago because I had moved from Boston. But there's this little red flag in my emotions saying... I don't know about these guys. There's this little tickle in my gut that I don't know about these guys. The one time I went with Head, it was a disaster. I lasted six months.

The title, the career path, the money, the benefits, the moment in my life where I needed to establish myself in Chicago because I had moved from Boston. But there's this little red flag in my emotions saying... I don't know about these guys. There's this little tickle in my gut that I don't know about these guys. The one time I went with Head, it was a disaster. I lasted six months.

I parted ways with the company. My intuition about the guys was right. Ultimately, the VCs that backed the founder of the company had to remove him as CEO and claw back some of their money and allow the business model to change without him. And the one time that I actually made a career decision with my head rather than my heart, it was a disaster. And I think I learned a lot from that.

I parted ways with the company. My intuition about the guys was right. Ultimately, the VCs that backed the founder of the company had to remove him as CEO and claw back some of their money and allow the business model to change without him. And the one time that I actually made a career decision with my head rather than my heart, it was a disaster. And I think I learned a lot from that.

I think ultimately... The emotional side of you, the intuitive side of you, you know, what Malcolm Gladwell writes about in Blink, is accessing the fact that our brains are firing off billions of neurons. We can't keep up with it at a conscious level, but our gut can, and our gut is telling us things that are important to listen to.

I think ultimately... The emotional side of you, the intuitive side of you, you know, what Malcolm Gladwell writes about in Blink, is accessing the fact that our brains are firing off billions of neurons. We can't keep up with it at a conscious level, but our gut can, and our gut is telling us things that are important to listen to.

That's the thing that drives entrepreneurs is the need, the emotional need to do this business, to see if it will work, to bring this value, to improve the world within. service or an innovation or a technology. I am firmly in the camp of do all the logical analysis and don't do something that is clearly stupid.

That's the thing that drives entrepreneurs is the need, the emotional need to do this business, to see if it will work, to bring this value, to improve the world within. service or an innovation or a technology. I am firmly in the camp of do all the logical analysis and don't do something that is clearly stupid.

But when ultimately faced with that choice, if your gut is telling you, this is where I got to go. And if this gut is, if your gut is telling you this is a bad idea, listen to it.

But when ultimately faced with that choice, if your gut is telling you, this is where I got to go. And if this gut is, if your gut is telling you this is a bad idea, listen to it.

I think you're 100% right that

I think you're 100% right that

our emotions and our heart are influenced by the people around us and in fact there's a lot of evidence that community is one of the primary sources of happiness in life so being able to find a community that supports you and that accepts you is one of the big challenges of people's lives and the way that community views you right being accepted by that community like you said by your peers in

our emotions and our heart are influenced by the people around us and in fact there's a lot of evidence that community is one of the primary sources of happiness in life so being able to find a community that supports you and that accepts you is one of the big challenges of people's lives and the way that community views you right being accepted by that community like you said by your peers in

graduate school or in the career world or, you know, that's an important part of life and happiness. I would argue that it doesn't just affect the heart, that it affects the head, that the very value systems that we're using to appraise things from a so-called logical standpoint standpoint, salary, title, right? Career potential, use of our talents.

graduate school or in the career world or, you know, that's an important part of life and happiness. I would argue that it doesn't just affect the heart, that it affects the head, that the very value systems that we're using to appraise things from a so-called logical standpoint standpoint, salary, title, right? Career potential, use of our talents.