SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

How to Build a Body-Based Bullshit Detector

A Practical Guide to Intuition for People Whose Gut Has Been Lying to Them Since 2003

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Dea Devidas
Feb 06, 2025
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Picture this: Life’s grand chessboard stretches before you, where everyday decisions move like game pieces in an eternal dance of “should I text back” and “is this job offer legit.” Doesn’t it make you think of that special piece we all claim to carry within? That’s right... our intuition, that sparkly little figurine of inner knowing that’s supposedly been hanging out in our biological pocket all along, except it keeps giving directions like a GPS that was last updated during the Bush administration.

Your body has been trying to guide you this whole time. Not through mystical downloads or cosmic whispers, but through sensation... temperature shifts, muscle contractions, breath changes, gut responses that arrive before your mind has finished constructing its seventeen alternative explanations.

Have you ever noticed how your “intuition” sometimes feels less like divine guidance and more like anxiety wearing a spiritual costume? When the internal radio seems to be picking up static instea…

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