Twenty opinions in your ear and one small hunch in your chest. The hunch usually knew first.

A quiet sense about something is built from details you noticed and never consciously filed, which is why it arrives before you can explain it. Loud opinions come with reasons attached, so they win arguments, and reasons are not the same as knowledge of your situation. The hunch is information in a form that is hard to present.

Write down what you suspect before you ask anybody. Collect the advice afterwards and compare it with what you wrote. Where the two disagree, do not discard the quiet one simply because it cannot defend itself.