Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
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07 Feb 2025
The biggest decisions in life aren’t made through spreadsheets or endless analysis—they’re made with heart, intuition, and courage. Jeff Bezos once said his best decisions weren’t based on data but on instinct, and that realization connected some dots for me. When it comes to shaping our future, logic can guide us, but it’s our inner voice that truly knows where we need to go. Deep down, we know when something feels right—or when it doesn’t. This episode is about trusting that feeling, embracing intuition, and making decisions that lead to a life you’re truly meant to live. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook
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What goes into your decision making? Particularly the big decisions, the important ones. I heard a quote that moved me from Jeff Bezos. It was a video on Twitter. And he said, my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, and guts, but not analysis. And he continues, when you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so.
But it turns out that in life, your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, and taste. And that connected some dots for me. Because I think the big decisions, the life-altering decisions, where we are pointing the ship should be made via intuition. Data can't tell you which direction is most important to you.
And even if it could, if your heart's not in it, if it's not aligned with who you are and where you feel you need to be, it wouldn't really matter anyway.
the most important decisions we make even right out of the gate there's this feeling of it's aligned or it isn't we know right away we feel it right away someone once said to me if you can't decide if something's good or not flip a coin because you'll know while that coin is in the air what side you want it to land on and we do we know and so after deciding
After letting intuition guide us, then and only then, in my humble opinion of course, do we calculate the how. That's the analysis part. Once we've committed and our hearts are aligned, yeah, you use the data all around you, the evidence collected along the way to map an efficient path. I think people tend to put the heart and the brain against each other as though they're rivals.
I know I certainly have, but... I think they need to coexist together. Think about it. If you select your North Star based on analysis, you'll probably lack the drive to get there. And conversely, once decided, if you map the course based solely on heart or feel, you'll be operating blind, limiting your ability to make accurate adjustments based on real life circumstances. You need both.
I'm making some pretty substantial changes here in my life. I'm moving again, this time to Arizona, starting up some new ventures, placing myself in a few situations that weren't even on the radar six months ago. I can't explain my rationale using mathematical models. I just know deep in my soul that it's where I need to be. It feels right. It's calling me. The same way 10 years ago,
Writing speeches in a small Boston apartment for no revenue at the time couldn't be explained. Can't show your work on a decision like that, right? It's just something that feels good. And, you know, once you jump in, then yeah, you start relying on the brain, the analysis to grow and improve and evolve.
But I do believe if we made the big decisions based only on the things we could prove or the things we are sure of, The biggest and most important leaps would never have been made. Risks wouldn't be taken. I mean, you don't take risks because you run the numbers and the odds work. You take risks because life is, when you break it down, remove the nuance and details, about the journey.
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