Sometimes, they try to find logic and ignore the unimportant details that don’t fit their reason.įor example, people trust their dog’s instinct more than themselves. What most people do is that they seek approval from the outside. Whenever your intuition tells you that something is fishy or strange, you should embrace it and explore it further instead of suppressing it. Gavin De Becker, The author of The Gift Of Fear Chapter 2: The Technology Of Intuition It always has purpose and meaning, to the perpetrator, at least. The human violence we abhor and fear the most, that which we call “random” and “senseless,” is neither. Gavin argues that it’s because we think we can’t predict crimes before happening that we avoid the duty of preventing violent behaviors. Unlike animal predators, human predators don’t desire food it’s plenty already. Predators often catch their prey off-guard. The author gives an analogy that criminals are like predators. Violence runs through all the species on this planet.

No matter how civilized we get, the violence will be there. Using our internal mechanisms like intuition, we can avoid becoming victims.

There is a myth that violent actions happen out of nowhere. We should learn how to recept the subtle signs that a perpetrator gives before committing the crime. Instead of relying on security officials, we must learn to sense danger and avoid it. The author suggests that we should take responsibility for our safety.

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker