Intuition is pre-verbal pattern recognition. Lessons learned through experience, etched deep into your unconscious memory, spring up as a feeling in your chest or your gut every time you catch a whiff of something in your environment that sets off an early detection system. For good or for warning.

That’s why you can trust your intuition. That’s why you can trust yourself. Find the words for what you’re feeling later. For now, stop and listen. You’re trying to tell yourself something.