Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear shows why intuition matters. An unsettling recent encounter showed me why ignoring intuition was a mistake.
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Even though the situation itself wasn’t of serious danger, ignoring my intuition still carried heavy consequences. I later regretted doing so.
In his book “The Gift of Fear”, Gavin de Becker explains why intuition can be our greatest ally, keeping us safe in times of danger, and can literally save our lives.
Gavin de Becker teaches us that intuition picks up what logic overlooks. In The Gift of Fear, in one incident, he described how shop staff sensed danger when police saw nothing amiss—a man in heavy clothes on a hot day.
My own encounter showed how costly it can be to ignore signals, even though it was a much less serious situation.
De Becker reminds us that intuition gathers data long before reason catches up.
In one chapter of this book, he revealed how shop staff noticed and showed fear of a “man in heavy clothing”, who was planning a crime.
This reveals what’s at stake when we dismiss gut signals. My experience mirrored this lesson in an unexpected way, although much less extreme.
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