What's Next? 4: Trust your intuition

I ought to start this post by making one thing absolutely clear.

I am fucking brilliant.

I have to waste so much time proving it. Memo to everyone: Save yourself the agony of being proven wrong and just accept that everything I say, do, think, believe, ask, instruct, and state is absolute, no question, solid, 24-carat, gold.

And what's more, (you mean there's more? yes, there's more!) is that I'm right very quickly. I make perfect decisions with a just a skerrick of information in half the time it takes to blink.

OK, got it? .... "Do you understand this? Do you understand this?" ......

So the statement

"trust your intuition"

probably should read

"take the time to explain to others in simple language that a 6th grader can understand why the fuck they are wrong and how could they be so stupid as to not listen to you in the first place"


But seriously. Especially in my work, I've sooooo often been persuaded by more senior (much much more senior) colleagues to take a course of action that was out of step with my intuition.

Case in point: After indicating to my friendly HR friends that no, I did not want to roll over the Enterprise Agreement covering my workforce for another 3 years because there was ambiguities in it that could cause problems down the line, I had the freaking Vice-President call me to insist upon it. Optionality zero. And then only a matter of weeks after it should have expired we were in the IRC arguing over the very ambiguity that I would have removed! Gah!

QED mutha!