This approach suggests a novel way to support smart decision making: not through the application of painstaking deliberation and analysis, but through the cultivation of what we might call “interoceptive learning.” This is a process of learning, first, how to sense, label, and regulate our internal signals—and second, how to draw connections between the particular sensations we feel within and the pattern of events we encounter in the world. When we feel a flutter in the stomach as we embark on a certain course of action, what consequences seem to follow? When we feel our heart leap at the
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