Not everything that feels like intuition came from wisdom; some instincts were trained by old fear.

Instinct is trained, and some of the training came from difficult places. The gut feeling that someone is about to turn on you, that you should not ask for anything, that you need to leave before it goes wrong: these can be accurate readings or they can be an old environment still issuing instructions. From inside they are indistinguishable, since both arrive as certainty without argument.

When a strong instinct appears, ask whether you have felt exactly this before and where it started. If it traces back to something specific and old, hold it more loosely. Wisdom and fear both speak with confidence, and only one of them updates.