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GPS vs Gut Feeling – Who’s Really in Control? · The Road Doc Podcast

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  When you are riding and GPS says turn left but your gut says keep
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  going straight, what do you listen to in this situation?
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  This isn't about just maps. This is about life, about trust,
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  about instincts. Ridesmart series is not just
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  about bikes, but it is about mindset.
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  This episode is about the difference between trusting your
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  map and trusting your gut, both on the road and in the life.
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  I will give you a real life example.
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  You know, when I was actually riding my Dominar 400, I was
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  literally following a GPS prompt and I literally ended up
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  somewhere, I have no idea. And every time I felt like in my
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  gut I am taking a wrong direction, I am going in the
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  wrong road or whatever. And, you know, it ended up in
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  traffic or broken roads or, you know, wrong routes.
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  Sometimes I just, you know, no maps, nothing, just write.
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  And it also led to most unique, powerful, peaceful spots.
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  So then I have just realized then I should not, you know,
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  listen to the GPS blindly because the greatest example is
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  if you check out my YouTube channel, there is a lost in
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  Bangalore video. Kindly check it out, you will
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  understand. I was just listening to the GPS
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  prompts and literally I ended up wrong ways.
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  So even though my gut was saying I was going wrong, going wrong,
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  going wrong. So yeah, sometimes it happens,
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  right? So sometimes we need to listen
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  to our gut not just following same thing happens in life as
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  well bro. Like the world gives us a GPS
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  like school, college, job, marriage, retirement.
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  But our gut sometimes says like wait, pause, take a moment, may
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  be take this unknown route, build something meaningful.
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  I will share my personal experience here.
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  I followed the GPS route for so long.
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  I have did everything to become doctor.
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  And then I felt like I took a wrong path or, you know, I did
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  not feel the fulfillment to its extent because I am actually
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  grateful for the experience and everything for sure.
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  But I felt like there is something missing.
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  There is something more I can do by becoming a doctor as well as
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  doing something else as well on something like that.
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  So what I did was I just took some break from my professional
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  career and started exploring all the options that the world in
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  2025 presents. You know, when I started to take
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  some time and listen to my gut, that's when I started to do all
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  these things like podcasts, YouTube, everything.
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  And of course, by the time I am recording, I only have like
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  what, 10 followers in Spotify and in few other followers in
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  all other major podcasts. But I have reached, you know,
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  globally in early stages as well that people are really looking
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  forward to listen to different perspectives, not just the
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  traditional lanes. And since my life is full of
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  adventures which I already know from the beginning of time, that
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  is the reason why. I mean, if I look at my family
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  dynamics, nobody chose the medical field.
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  That's the first adventure. Let's start there.
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  So I became the 1st doctor in the whole family setup and then
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  now I am diverging or I just took a break from medical field
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  to explore other options as well.
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  I did not leave it permanently. I just took a little bit, you
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  know different kind of a route to also explore other options.
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  Because let us just be real guys.
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  How many people can we save in a single 24 hours?
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  Maybe 1-2, maximum three. That is all right.
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  But with this podcasts or YouTube, everything I can share
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  my knowledge here. And because of that, I can
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  really make a good impact in people's life who are in a
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  confused state, whether they want to go for this or that or
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  you know, they can get some sort of inputs from my thoughts and
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  my suggestions that it might help them to make their decision
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  much, much clearer. I mean, it's not entirely
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  supposed to make things easier or anything because everyone's
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  life is not same. I will not suggest anybody or
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  anything to completely follow me or take the routes that I am
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  taking because trust me guys, everyone's life is different.
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  Everyone's path is different, but we might end up at the same
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  destination, but the path we choose and travel is absolutely
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  unique to every, each and every other person.
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  So I just want to share my unique perspective here.
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  That is all it is. So yes, so you know, your gut
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  isn't a magic, it is a memory plus emotion.
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  It gets stronger the more you use it.
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  That is what I feel sometimes I ride solo, not really sometimes,
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  most of the time. But yeah, I do not use any GPS,
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  nothing. I just take my Domino 400 and
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  wherever I feel like I need to go, I just write that is it, and
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  then come back to my home exactly in the same direction.
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  And you know, I will give an example.
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  This morning I was just wanna go out.
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  I don't know where how. So I just took the highway.
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  I was just going and cruising in the regular highway and then out
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  of a sudden I just noticed there was a left direction that comes.
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  I never noticed in that same highway.
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  I was going every day, every single day, but I never noticed
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  this road and I was curious to find out what is there.
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  And you know what, I just went there.
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  I took the left and I went. It was completely off road for
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  like few kilometers and then it just connected to a different
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  highway. It is kind of a shortcut.
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  It is full of off road and I literally had fun riding my
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  Dominar 400 in the off road. I just stood up and I was
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  saddling and also it was very fun.
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  See that's what I'm saying. Like sometimes we really think
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  we took a very bad decision or wrong decision just because we
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  took non traditional routes. But it was completely off road,
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  but I was enjoying it. It all applies in life as well,
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  you know. But I still ended up in a
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  different highway and that ended up in the same highway later on.
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  But you know, that's how life also moves on.
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  That's what I believe. Just because someone is going
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  through something and someone is taking different routes, that
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  doesn't mean they will fail in life.
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  That only says that they have courage to go through whatever
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  they want to go through experience in a different way
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  and they can also come back and be better than rest of the
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  people who took traditional rules.
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  That is all I am trying to say. So since see my life is crazy
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  adventure in every phase of my life, I can say that for sure
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  because every decision I make, everything I choose, it is a
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  kind of a craziest adventures for me personally.
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  So I like that way. And luckily or by God's Christ,
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  we can say I always end up in a good direction.
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  No matter what unknown roads I take, in the end, I always end
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  up in a good and better direction than ever.
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  That I can say. So that is why sometimes, you
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  know, you have to listen to your gut and I believe not sometimes,
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  but every time you listen to your gut, your life will be more
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  meaningful and more purposeful. You will be very, very happy.
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  So that's why in life, make small decisions based on how you
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  feel without asking anyone that you know.
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  That's how you can develop your inner campus like that gut
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  feeling gets sharper and sharper the more you use it.
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  So you can try and click that, that gives a different unique
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  perspectives to life and explore it in a different, different way
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  because you know there is nothing wrong with traditional
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  methods but I do not want to judge it.
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  It is just not for everyone. That is all I am saying this.
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  Traditional methods are everything.
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  Like if we look at successful people or people who are very
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  happy, they do not follow traditional ways because life
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  keeps changing at a rapid pace every now and then.
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  So that is what I am going to say, like trust your gut more
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  than the map because the map shows you the road, but that
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  tells you who you are and that makes you a unique person and
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  that adds so much of value for you as a person.
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  So yeah, that's my take here on this episode of GPS versus cut
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  feeling guys. For people who don't really
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  understand, I just want to show it like who is really in
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  control? I want everybody to understand
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  this is a metaphor. If anybody is not understanding,
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  for those people, this is a metaphor.
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  What I am really trying to say is to trust yourself more than
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  anything else. That's all.
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  So yes, next episode will drop on next Saturday, 6:00 PM.
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  Until then, take care, right? Smart bye.