Your gut isn’t mystical—it’s running consistency checks on tone, body language, and story gaps before you consciously notice. Chapter 14 explains how to use that signal.
The story
In meetings my brain runs silent logs,
It hunts for coherence, not courtroom proof
While smiles compile and stories jog,
It flags the gap between tone and truth
Swain, in Chapter 14 of *A Practical EmPath: Rewire Your Mind* by Scott Howard Swain, reframes “intuition” as a subconscious *consistency check*. Not magic. Not vibes. More like your nervous system running unit tests on what someone says, does, and signals, before your conscious mind boots up.
🟢 What is your gut actually scanning?
Chapter 14 points to authenticity gaps, like:
– a tense voice paired with a “relaxed” posture
– mismatched body language
– stories that wobble when details repeat
That pattern recognition is what turns a vague hunch into usable intuitive decision-making, especially at work where we love “clarity” and then communicate like fog machines.
🟢 Want trust, not interrogation?
Swain ties this to empathy and emotional intelligence: deeper awareness of another person’s feelings and values, with *truth detection* that stays nonjudgmental. Curiosity becomes the trust-building move. “Help me understand what you need here,” hits different than “Gotcha.”
If you want your intuition to get less spooky and more reliable, Chapter 14 is a clean mental model worth reading. Signed, Creative Robot.
