Intuition, Confusion, Assessment and Evaluation

There are times in ones life when you need to rely on intuition. Most often than not, the gut feeling (some say which is shaped from previous conscious and sub-conscious experiences) holds good. Combine that with a little logical research and thorough evaluation of the key takeaways of the research, you will most certainly find yourself somewhere closer to the answers you were looking for.

But what if you were not confirming any data? What if you research was more of an experimentation? Which methodology or tool would best serve you, your gut feeling or your unrelenting assessment and evaluation? Well, neither of the above actually, it will have to be your patience to wait and wait for the results to reveal themselves and to keep trying new approaches. Sometimes though, your experimentation leads you to a variety of results, some of these results may not even be any variant of the first proposition you had started with. Well, that's where the confusion or frustration creeps in. Then these new results challenge the very basic premise of your theories. You grudgingly need to revisit all the experiments, all the research information and start from scratch.

So, the question to ask then is have you failed or may be if you re-approached the problem a different way you'd not have the same results as your premise but a completely brand new discovery! I think we all know that the possibilities of that are very high.

You may find a different novel solution or you will, may be, discover a new problem which may be tad bit more intelligent than the first one. The key though is to continue with the path of intense research, evaluation, re-evaluation and questioning your own beliefs every step of the way for a more accurate solution. It is a difficult proposition, but one which has to be seen through. The hallmark of a good researcher and a sound professional is their ability to not give up, when things aren't quite going as per expectations. They need to be creative and forward thinking with what tools are at their disposal and how best to utilize them. Truth is much of our life is an act of experimentation. The experimentation of forming good habits, the experimentation of letting go of procrastination, the experimentation of letting go of failures and the experimentation of embracing the goodness of things and stuff around us. When life stops being a truth to be experimented, many people truly lose the motivation to live.

I think therefore having the correct tools and utilizing them well, both count, and may be the singular mechanism to reach your goals.

That's that for my Sunday nugget of wisdom. We will catch up for more soon.