Scientific Definition
The sense of the internal state of the body — heartbeat, hunger, tension.
Plain-English Definition
The sense of the internal state of the body — heartbeat, hunger, tension.
Feynman Explanation
'Gut feel' is interoception with a story.
Core Principle
The sense of the internal state of the body — heartbeat, hunger, tension.
Mechanisms
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The sense of the internal state of the body — heartbeat, hunger, tension.
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Leadership self-awareness has a measurable physiological floor.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
'Gut feel' is interoception with a story.
Examples
- Better interoceptive accuracy linked to better decision-making and emotion regulation.
- Leadership self-awareness has a measurable physiological floor.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Train interoceptive awareness through breathwork, somatic practices, mindfulness.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Train interoceptive awareness through breathwork, somatic practices, mindfulness.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Reading micro-shifts in another person's state — breath, color, micro-expression — in real time.
Tools, notebooks, and trusted others are literally part of your cognitive system — not just aids to it.
Eye movements that loosely correlate with which representational system is active — visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
Brain region for planning, impulse control, and executive function.
The sense of where the body is in space.
Changing the meaning of an experience by changing the frame around it.
The fine-grained sensory qualities of internal experience — brightness, distance, volume, location.
The conditions under which a target accepts an influence attempt without scrutiny.
A controlled scenario, often impossible, used to isolate a variable and test an intuition or theory.
What we wear influences how we think and perform.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Basics first (health/finances), then depth (mastery/impact), then altruism (widening circle).