There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Two kinds of knowing run on different evidence. One weighs, compares and can explain itself; the other registers something in a room before you could say why, and it is often right about people in ways the first is not. Treating either as the only legitimate source leaves you badly equipped. The difficulty is that each is confident in its own way.

When a decision involves people, note what your gut said in the first ten seconds, then do the analysis and compare the two. Where they disagree, look for what the feeling might have caught that the reasoning has not counted. Where they agree, move quickly.