Your gut is data you haven’t put into words yet. Let it vote, just don’t let it be the only vote.

Intuition is pattern recognition running faster than language. Your body noticed something before you could explain it, which is why the feeling is real and also why it cannot be examined directly. The mistake runs in both directions: treating it as nonsense, or treating it as proof. It is one input from a system that has been right and wrong before.

When you get a strong one, write down what it seems to be telling you, then go looking for evidence either way. Let it set the question rather than the answer.