Inner Conviction Over Consensus Approval

“Someone took almost their entire life to finally start living their life. Tragic. But fortunately, they eventually found the courage and strength to embrace it. The most important thing: at least he had the experience of evidence. For him, it was always evident: medicine is his field! In other people, sometimes the sense for evidence is almost completely buried. Or they have never experienced it. Because although every person has the ability to a greater or lesser extent, experiences of evidence are not the same for everyone. You can become more sensitive to them, you can become receptive to experiences of evidence. The only question is, how do you do that?”

“Because in everything we do: What is important about it? The future! And not the prolongation of what has already been experienced. Only a bureaucrat acts from the past. The entrepreneurially disposed person always starts anew. He acts on the basis of today and what he anticipates from the future—strengthened by the skills he has developed in the past. With empiricism one grasps the past, with evidence one copes with the future. We move through the world, have our experiences, and derive some insight from them. One tries to ensure this insight, then feels secure and moves on. The path leads to a new encounter, one discovers an interest in the matter and then has an intuition. This intuition tells you: Now you must continue here! That is not an empirical experience; that is an experience of evidence. The evidence gives me insight. One does not act from experience, but from insight. Perhaps you are not in love yet, but you meet the other person and say: This has something to do with me. From the evidence comes insight. Everyone says it can’t be done, but you feel that maybe it could. It is an inner conviction of doing the right thing.”