Hell Yeah! or Hell No! And How to Tell the Difference by Sam Kyle

Author:Sam Kyle [Kyle, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

Develop Self-Awareness

It’s not necessarily easy to identify and follow a “hell yeah!” One major barrier, as we’ve mentioned, is the stigma that can surround intuition, leading to a form of learned helplessness where we don't trust our gut feelings. However, we can change that.

According to research into intuitive decision-making, the most essential factor is deep fluency for the area, such as you’d expect from chess experts who have spent decades playing. The depth of a decision-maker’s knowledge is key. We improve our intuition by chunking away large amounts of information and learning useful heuristics. Contrary to popular belief, there's no set amount of time required to master a given area. It’s not 10,000 hours or any other figure. It depends on the field and how you practice, and how you define mastery.

If you want to be able to trust your gut feelings, you have to put effort into learning where your intuition let you down. Don’t abandon it, improve it.

Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. ―Abraham Verghese

If you're swamped with potential projects, clarify to yourself exactly what your requirements are for a 'hell yeah!' opportunity and where your strengths lie. Become fluent in your own strengths and standards. If you don’t know which job to take or career path to pursue, learn about your needs as a worker, as a team member, as a leader. What does your ideal environment look like? Your ideal day? What do you really want?

While your life isn't something you can master like a game of chess, it pays to know what you actually want, to have a deep understanding of short and long-term wishes. An easy criticism to make of the “hell yeah!” approach is that it encourages instant gratification and only doing what feels good now. But if we're making decisions with an implicit understanding of what will benefit us in the long-term, the opposite is true. It's easier to make decisions that will benefit you a year from now if you have a deep fluency in how you work as a person, what your needs are, and where you want to end up. If you don’t know where you want to go, you’ll end up getting nowhere.

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