The Creator Mindset

There’s a new neuroscience study out that basically confirms something I’ve suspected for years:

The longer humans think about something, the stranger we become.

Researchers studied professional chess players and found that the faster they made decisions, the better those decisions were.

Which means somewhere out there, a grandmaster is making brilliant moves in three seconds while I’m standing in CVS trying to decide if I need shampoo and conditioner or if that’s just what Big Hair wants me to believe.

But the study makes a profound point: Human beings are actually incredible at intuitive decision making. Not impulsive decision making. Not emotional chaos.

Intuition.

Your brain is constantly processing patterns, experiences, failures, observations, instincts, millions of tiny data points you don’t even realize you’ve collected. And then somewhere along the way we were taught not to trust any of it until we’ve overthought it into dust.

That’s where fear sneaks in. Fear loves overanalysis because overanalysis feels productive.You’re not procrastinating, you’re “evaluating options.”You’re not avoiding the decision, you’re “gathering more data.”

Meanwhile your intuition is sitting quietly in the corner like:

“We literally had the answer 45 minutes ago. WTF.”

Some of the best decisions I’ve ever made happened quickly. Some of the worst happened after I asked 17 people for advice, opened 39 browser tabs, made a spreadsheet, ignored my gut, and somehow ended up more confused than when I started.

Creativity requires movement. Innovation requires trust. And sometimes your brain already knows long before your fear catches up.

Also, this study explains why ordering food with another person is one of the most psychologically exhausting experiences known to humanity.

“I don’t care, you pick.” No one has ever meant that sentence. 😅

https://neurosciencenews.com/decision-speed-intuition-30715/