Much attention (because Taleb) is given to "having skin in the game" - and rightly so. It's an important and actionable heuristic. Also of tremendous import is "gut feeling" which is called out specifically in the article: "Gut feeling has been defined as an intuitive feeling that something was wrong even if the clinician was unsure why." The disorganized, indescribable, cumulative knowledge of a human practitioner w…
I work with a lot of physician colleagues (as well as veterinarians) and one of the things I wish we could capture was what words someone uses to trigger those gut feelings. The way a patient describes their pain, how we try to wrap our language around complex disease concepts...
Words can be a tiny part of it, but usually gut feelings are about all those things you can't process as easily with rational thinking and so rely on a different, less precise and more general, method of analyzing. This does not play well with language, which is very accurate and precise, very intellectual.
It's why we can easily walk, but have a hard time describing how we walk.
A commenter on HN talked about the book "The inner game of tennis" not so long ago. I highly recommend it to get a gentle introduction to this part of us. Especially on this site, where a lot of us are geeks who are more used to leverage their rational thinking than their feelings.
Last year, many commenters talked about meditation. While I do recommend the practice, starting from the sport point of view is way easier to swallow and make a better starting point for people with strong affinity with precision and step by step logic.