Listen, and it’s all there. If you are going to trust any adviser,
who will it be? It makes sense for it to be you because you
have all the facts, all the experience, all the knowledge at your
fingertips. No one else has. No one can get inside you and see
exactly what’s going on.
Quick point of clarification here. When I say listen, I don’t
mean listen to what goes on in your head. Now that really is
where madness lies. No, I mean a stiller, quieter voice. For
some it’s more a feeling than a voice—what we sometimes call
gut instinct. And even if it is a voice, a lot of the time it doesn’t
speak at all—unlike our mind, which babbles on inces-
santly—and if it does, you can miss it in the torrent of words
that our mind produces.
This isn’t about predicting what’s going to happen. You won’t
discover which horse will win the Kentucky Derby or who’ll
score in the Cup Final. No, this is the important stuff: what
we’re about to do, big decisions we have to make, why we are
behaving in the way we are. You already know the answer, if
you ask yourself.
YOU KNOW.
AND I KNOW YOU KNOW.
I KNOW BECAUSE
WE ALL KNOW.