You can train your instincts

Have you never found yourself in a situation of danger, some position wholly new to your experience and, yet in a second, quicker than thought, you knew your only chance was to follow some line of escape? Had you had more time and begun to use your reason and think out what you ought to do, ten to one, you might have become befogged and done the wrong thing. As It was, you followed your instinct. You can train your instincts just as you train a voice to produce a singer.

William James (Spirit)

The Helix Nebula – NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona