subject: Following Your Intuition: The Unknown Factor [print this page] Ted: I want to go with something...and get your comments on something that's pure personal, wasn't directly business-related except for, of course, I survived to do business another day. But one day... Most of our listeners know that I'm thoroughly involved in Latin America. I have a wife, a child, a house in Panama; I've visited a lot of countries. And when I lived in San Diego, you can bet I went to Mexico, almost every single week.
That's the background. Now I mean... Driving is no big deal. I know a lot of people get freaked out about driving in foreign countries... No big deal, these aren't foreign countries. And I always just took my car, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
But one day, one day, now this is in California, I got the impression that, "Man, it'd be better to rent a car than...than to just go". By the way I wasn't usually buying insurance, either, because I didn't worry too much about Mexico, and I was going every single weekend... All the time right?
But just...now... So, Tom, I followed my intuition; I rented a car. And I went down and... nothing happened. I mean I could see no evidence that if I had driven my own car something bad would've happened, because nothing bad happened with the rented car. You catch my drift?
Tom Justin: Absolutely. Ah, and this is always the unknown factor, because let's say that the time that you took to rent the car, or the...the minutes or the half-hour that you went out of your way to do something, may have been exactly what you needed in time to avoid something that would've happened had you gone down the normal path.
There's no way to know this, but when the feeling is that strong to do something like that and you do it and there's no bad result...
You're certainly not going to be disappointed that you didn't crash your rented car.
