Trust your instincts.

Thoreau and Charles Peirce (1839-1914), two American philosophers, both argued for the importance of feeling and instinct. Thoreau claimed that our instincts are our surest guide to the truth. If we have the courage to free ourselves from the “laws of convention”, the ways of thinking and acting in society that people take for granted, we become candidates for intuiting “Higher Laws”. And these Higher Laws are known primarily through feeling. They are our point of contact with the divine. No one, Thoreau teaches, has ever followed her instincts until they lead her astray. Peirce made a similar case, which he referred to as his “Sentimentalism”. What is the most interesting about Peirce’s respect for feeling is that he was an expert in logic and science. In fact, Peirce argued that scientists are actually guided by their feelings as they form hypotheses. Reason itself, Peirce teaches, eventually realizes that feelings are important, both in science and in practical matters.
Strange thing – when you follow your instinct – everything goes very well. But when you stop and start analyzing and estimate possible results – 90% everything won’t go very well.