{"id":5507,"date":"2025-11-07T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/your-intuition-is-just-your-past-if-you-want-to-create-a-different-future-you-have-to-get-uncomfortable-and-go-somewhere-unfamiliar\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:49:43","slug":"your-intuition-is-just-your-past-if-you-want-to-create-a-different-future-you-have-to-get-uncomfortable-and-go-somewhere-unfamiliar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/your-intuition-is-just-your-past-if-you-want-to-create-a-different-future-you-have-to-get-uncomfortable-and-go-somewhere-unfamiliar\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7392573977279414272>Your \u201cintuition\u201d is just your past. If you want to create a different future, you have to get uncomfortable and go somewhere unfamiliar.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your \u201cintuition\u201d is just your past. If you want to create a different future, you have to get uncomfortable and go somewhere unfamiliar. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntuition\u201d is really just your nervous system getting trained on a pattern until it no longer feels surprising &#8211; it just feels right.<\/p>\n<p>When I sang in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, I could pick up Bach or Beethoven and sight-sing it accurately because I\u2019d spent years immersed in that classical music world. The chord progressions felt inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Then we\u2019d perform modern composers such as Stravinsky, Schoenberg, or John Adams, and the music sounded \u201cwrong\u201d to me at first. Dissonant. Strange. Uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>But after a few weeks of rehearsing, those same pieces started to feel inevitable too.<\/p>\n<p>Repetition reshaped my intuition.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happens in life and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>If you stay in your normal routines, your brain will keep reinforcing the belief that the world works only one way.<\/p>\n<p>But when you step outside your normal by:<br \/>\n \u2022 traveling to a different culture<br \/>\n \u2022 reading about people who lived differently<br \/>\n \u2022 working with teams that think differently<br \/>\n \u2022 taking on a challenge that stretches you<br \/>\n\u2026your sense of what is \u201cnatural\u201d begins to expand.<\/p>\n<p>New intuition comes from new experience.<br \/>\nAnd new experience requires discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Where have you stretched your intuition recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your \u201cintuition\u201d is just your past. If you want to create a different future, you have to get uncomfortable and go somewhere unfamiliar. \u201cIntuition\u201d is really just your nervous system getting trained on a pattern until it no longer feels surprising &#8211; it just feels right. When I sang in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}