I'll Take Stupid Answers for... No, wait...

So I was really tanking Jeopardy yesterday. No, seriously. I must have gotten like 8 of the first 15 questions wrong. The sad thing? Almost every wrong answer was because of a second guess.

I also caught myself saying something I haven't said in a very long time. In response to a friend's Facebook post (because that's the only way people communicate nowadays), I said, "My life's pretty damn good right now."

Correlation? Well, I only can say that about my life because I finally made a decision that was 3-4 years in the making. It would have been made earlier, but I kept considering other possibilities.

Hindsight may be 20/20, and Barbara Walters may be downright ancient, but I think most people need to give a whole lot more credit to their first instinct.

After all, the human race as a species has only managed to survive by first doing what was intuitive and learning from the consequences positive or negative.

And if you think I'm waxing too philosophically and off my rocker, think about this. How much less brainpower would it take if we all took fewer options into consideration. We only use a small portion of our brains for a reason.

Two, actually: 1. Humans are dumb & 2. We don't have this mind-altering pill from "Limitless" yet (Gotta rent that)

So give your hamster a rest, put your gut to work and reap the benefits