What if your most reliable data point is the one you cannot yet explain? One of the most profound lessons of my life came from a gym full of sweaty teenagers running a simple basketball drill, a moment that showed how intuition and gut feel can be trained, and can become superpowers for better decision making. That curiosity carried into my work as a professor at Harvard Business School, where I studied intuition as something shaped by data, patterns, memory, emotions, and lived experience. The deeper test arrived later, when my own gut told me it was time to leave Harvard long before I could rationalize why. In a world full of noise, social pressure, and never-ending expectations, this talk, The Power of Gut Feel in a Noisy World, is a reminder that sometimes the clearest wisdom is the one that quietly surfaces from within. What if your most reliable data point is the one you cannot yet explain? One of the most profound lessons of my life came from a gym full of sweaty teenagers running a simple basketball drill, a moment that showed how intuition and gut feel can be trained, and can become superpowers for better decision making. That curiosity carried into my work as a professor at Harvard Business School, where I studied intuition as something shaped by data, patterns, memory, emotions, and lived experience. The deeper test arrived later, when my own gut told me it was time to leave Harvard long before I could rationalize why. In a world full of noise, social pressure, and never-ending expectations, this talk, The Power of Gut Feel in a Noisy World, is a reminder that sometimes the clearest wisdom is the one that quietly surfaces from within. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx