How to Trust Your Gut (Even When Fear Tells You Not To)

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hey friends, Chase here.

Ever had that gut feeling—the one whispering that you’re meant for something more? Maybe it nudged you toward a bold move, a creative dream, or a life change you couldn’t quite explain. But then, almost immediately, fear kicked in.

“That’s risky.”
“What if I fail?”
“What will people think?”

Here’s the truth: Your gut is rarely wrong. Fear, on the other hand, is loud, irrational, and loves to keep you small.

Why Trusting Your Gut Feels Hard

The world conditions us to play it safe—to follow the map, not the compass. We’re told there’s a “right” way to live: go to school, get a stable job, and avoid risks. But what if that map is outdated? What if following someone else’s plan is the real danger?

Some Highlights from This Episode:

🔥 The difference between a map and a compass—Why external advice can only take you so far.
🔥 Why playing it safe is the riskiest thing you can do—And how to reframe fear as a sign of growth.
🔥 How to take small, actionable steps toward your dreams—Without overthinking yourself into paralysis.

Your Gut Knows. Listen to It.

Fear will always be there. But so will your inner knowing. The key is learning to tell the difference—and having the courage to follow through.

Until next time, trust yourself. You already have the answers.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Chase. You know, one thing I've learned is that the world will sell you a map that's designed to guide your life journey with a little red dot that says you are here.
0:16.3	In theory, if you follow that tidy little line of dashes over the river through the woods and across the valley, you're supposed to get to your destination or the destination where you're supposed to go, whatever that means.
0:30.2	All you have to do is go to a specific college and get a specific set of grades, then you'll get the right job and all will be well.
0:40.5	But what if none of that makes you truly happy? Or what if you're not fulfilled when you get to that destination? Or even more likely,
0:48.1	what if that map is complete trash and following the dotted line actually lands you no closer to the desired destination
0:56.8	than flipping a coin. Well, it's time to forget the map and look to your internal compass to
1:04.8	show you the way. Now, the difference between a map and a compass seems small at first, but it's
1:10.8	significant.
1:12.3	A compass points only in a general direction, right?
1:16.1	It's clear and it's pointing, but it doesn't pretend to care what's between you and your destination.
1:22.5	It simply trusts that you will navigate the details on your own.
1:27.4	A map, however, shows a very specific
1:30.4	route. At first, it seems to be more useful because it tells us exactly where to turn right or left,
1:36.5	but its precision actually sets us up for struggle. In the dynamic nature that is a human life,
1:43.7	it's a lie that there is only a single path that will lead to our
1:47.3	destination this is why the compass aka your intuition is the preferred tool for navigating life
1:56.3	it knows that small detours are a part of the process, but no matter what, our true North
2:02.3	matters most. And we all have a dream or an idea or a longing that we were taught to park
2:10.6	or ignore or parse out because it's impractical or embarrassing or somehow just not what we're
2:16.3	meant to be doing.
2:24.2	And actually, I'm willing to bet that something immediately came to mind when you just heard me share that sentence.
2:31.0	But if it didn't, close your eyes and think about your past experiences, right?
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