Good instincts aren’t magic. They’re a thousand reps your brain remembers without asking you.

What feels like a sixth sense is compressed experience. After enough repetitions the pattern matching moves somewhere you cannot observe, so the answer arrives before the reasoning does and it feels mysterious because the working is hidden. It was earned rather than issued.

Two useful things follow. Trust the instinct in areas where you have genuinely put the hours in, and be careful with it where you have not, however confident it sounds. If you want better instincts in something, the only route is more repetitions.