SABISMS ~ Gut Going
Admittedly, I’m a sucker for cute little aphorisms and pocket-sized proverbs, whether or not they’re true or still valid.
Many have become popular and often cliched exactly because they do refer to simple home truisms which we like to wheel out given any vaguely appropriate occasion.
For me though, the best of these reality-bites, to coin a phrase, slyly combine a supposed absolute truth with a twist of sly irony. Like the second part of this one.
Creativity comes from trust.
Trust your instincts. And never
hope more than you work.~ Rita Mae Brown
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Hopeless dreamers produce similar results.
Go with your gut and get going!
~Sab Will
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And never hope more than you work! Love it. This pokes fun at everyone who thinks or acts (or doesn’t act) as if wishful thinking alone will get them even vaguely close to where they’d like to be.
‘Trust your instincts’ is another way of saying ‘go with your gut feeling’, or even ‘follow your heart’. Which would be great advice, except for the fact that… we don’t actually have a choice!
I don’t think I’m guilty of ‘pop-psychologising’ if I say that the subconscious mind is almost infinitely more powerful and certainly more sage than our poor old waking brains.
Unbeknownst to us, given any testing situation, our heads are instantly calling on a lifetime’s experience of causes and consequences to come up with, in milliseconds, a highly probable best solution before we’ve even finished hearing the sentence that’s stimulated all this sub-cranial cogitation.
In a nutshell, our very own inbuilt higher power knows infinitely better what it’s up to than the little conscious human part of us does, despite what we’d like to believe.
When was the last time you had to remind yourself consciously to breathe or to digest your food properly or to release a bit of dopamine or cortisol to keep things ticking along nicely? To keep yourself alive, in fact. I thought so.
We spend a huge amount of our waking energy inventing rational-sounding explanations to justify our emotional decisions and actions. The sooner we understand that in ourselves and others, and accept it with a wry smile, the better.
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(SABISMS Gut Going is No.11 in a Super Series of 183)
(See also: SABISMS Passion Fashion ~ in Personal Creativity No.11)
Notes on SABISMS Gut Going
Sab Will enjoys writing Sabisms about creativity in business and life.
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