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Instinct is/is not ...

~ feels like certainty, always. or sometimes.

Mark Kolke
Jan 20, 2026
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Some days, I believe my gut speaks faster than my brain can explain.

The question is not only whether instinct is real.

It is whether it is accurate.

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In the first five minutes, I can feel “sure” about three things I have not verified.

A person.

A story.

A headline that sounds like an Orson Welles broadcast.

We call that instinct.

But is it instinct, or is…

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