You can feel deeply without making every deep feeling prophetic.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Depth of feeling is not a form of foresight. A strong conviction that this will fail, that they will leave, that something is about to go wrong, feels like knowledge because of its force, but intensity is generated by your history and your state, not by access to the future. People who feel things powerfully often mistake the power for accuracy, and act on it.

When you are certain something is going to happen, write the prediction down with a date. Come back to it. Over a few months you will build a real record of how your strong feelings correspond to outcomes, which will do more than any amount of arguing with yourself in the moment.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which strong feeling did you treat as a forecast?

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