I trust both my gut and my critical thinking. Nothing else.
Discussion
How do you decide when you don't have the knowledge to support the critical thinking?
I don’t know I have a measure for that, but when that’s the case I default to no having an opinion.
Bit what about when you have to make a choice.
Example - choosing a mechanic and you don't know anything about cars..
I learn from experience in cases like that. Make an uninformed choice, learn from the mistakes.
Isn't an uninformed choice completely out of intuition then? We choose something for some reason. I would say that intuition is information. For me, it has served me more at times than knowing more about something even.
Make sure to apply critical thinking to your own intuition from time to time.
My intuition has served me well too, but it has needed fine tuning to refine it.