Why do we go against our intuition?
by 
misshell on fire
ANSWERS: 8
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We're not taught to trust our intuition.
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we are hard headed creatures
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Intuition is a sixth sense which we have never been taught to either foster or rely apon.
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we have information overload and don't know which is our intuition and which is just junk.
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Desire sometimes overpowers intuition and makes us take a chance.
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Let me share a story. Some time, long ago, I fell in love with my female bestfriend. And strangely, I've had this intuition that my female bestfriend has fallen in love with me as well. But I didn't do anything about it. I mean, what should've I done about it? Confess to her right there and wait for her to confess back? What if I was just delusional and get rejected? What if she gets disgusted and hates me for life? I wasn't ready to give up our friendship in case that happens. Two years later I couldn't take it anymore. I confess. She rejects me. We drift apart. Fastfoward five years later. The last time we talked, the bitter truth came out: she fell in love with me first. But because she wasn't sure what she felt about me, and since I didn't seem interested at the time, she taught herself to move on. If only we listened to that little voice at the back of our heads.... I dunno. I can only say things couldn't have been worse than what they are now. If you were in my position back then, would you have, even against great odds, believed what your intuition was telling you?
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The idea that we might be wrong.
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"Our two minds .... One is an act of the emotional mind, the other of the rational mind. In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels" (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996, page 8). The rational mind is also called the faculty of logic and reason. The emotional mind is called intuition. The Hindu Upanishads say that these two are opposite in nature. Emotions appear irrational. Rationality seems to lack emotions. Modern psychologist also have observed it, but they are not very sure about it: "At the same time, reason sometimes clearly seems to come into conflict with some desires (even while not being in conflict with others) giving us the impression that reason is separate from emotion". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason
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