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| | Post New Topic | | feelings and FEELINGS | Views: 66 | | Aug 30, 2009 8:20 pm | | feelings and FEELINGS | # | 
Denis Gibbon | | How much do you rely on your feelings as a guide in decision making? Some feelings are more important than others as the following story shows:
It's vacation time for Sue. She's off to visit her relatives in another state. Her father takes her to the airport. Soon before takeoff Sue becomes anxious about the plane flight and decides that she doesn't want to go.Her father tells her not to be so childish and points out how much safer planes are compared to cars. Sue's anxiety remains and she tells her father that she is afraid to go, but decides to go to please her father. After all he paid for her airfares and even gave her spending money to make her trip vacation more enjoyable.
Fifteen minutes after takeoff the plane crashed. There were no survivors.
Can you imagine how Sue's father felt? Had he done something terribly wrong? If you were Sue's father, would you have persuaded your daughter to ignore her feelings and take the flight?
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Private Reply to Denis Gibbon | | Aug 30, 2009 11:30 pm | | re: feelings and FEELINGS | # | 
Ken Hilving | | Funny thing about gut feelings - we remember those times it was right, and forget about those times it was wrong or when we were surprised by some event.
I was going to relay a similar story of premonition, but the more I thought about that particular stretch of missions, the more I realized the premonition (shared by many of the crew) mission was not our closest brush with catastrophe, and every other mission we had no inkling of the problems to come. While it makes a great story, it really shows me how unreliable those gut feelings are.
Of course, for someone in the position like Sue's father in the story presented, there must be a tremendous sense of guilt that no rational examination will resolve.
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