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I Wrote Down Every Hunch For A Month... Then Counted The Score
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Dear Readers,
Last month I started a strange little notebook. Every time I had a hunch, I wrote it down with the date. Which queue to join. Whether to send the message now or tomorrow. Whether the rain would hold off. Sixty entries in thirty days, most of them about nothing important at all.
At the end of the month I scored them. The result was not what I expected. The small everyday hunches were right far more often than chance. The misses had a pattern too. Nearly every wrong one was about something I wanted badly. Wanting, it turns out, is loud. It drowns the signal it pretends to be.
I do not think a hunch is magic. I think it is memory arriving early. We notice far more than we can say, and the noticing adds up somewhere below the surface, until it knocks. The notebook only made the knocking easier to hear.
So here is a practice worth a week. Keep your own tally. Write the hunch down before the reasons arrive, then check the score later. And if you want an older tradition's read on what those quiet signals might carry, there is something I keep coming back to.
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The notebook is still open on my desk. The hunches keep arriving in their small, consistent handwriting.
— Alex
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