being intellectually smart helps you solve present problems. Being intuitive keeps you alive in all situations.

 So, though it's important to be intellectually smart in order to survive in this world without common sense and intuition often you are soon dead.

Like for example, someone intellectually smart might jump off a cliff with a hang glider or Paraglider or just jump into the ocean off that cliff below.

However, someone who is intuitive and had common sense might realize that this could be fatal and not do any of these things.

I have always had a balance of intellectual smarts and intuitive smarts. My father was valedictorian of his High school Class so I got intellectual smarts from my Dad. However, My mother was likely one of the most intuitive people I have ever met and was obviously an Empath too (she knew what people were thinking and feeling) and because of this she never had a bad thing to say about anyone and her philosophy was always "Live and Let Live". So, in me both these types of awareness combined which I find is pretty useful in surviving as long as I have.

So, I tend to be extremely pragmatic while also being intuitive while also having common sense even though through my Dad his family were all physical Risk Takers and had a very adventurous spirit.

However, if you don't have the right focus of co-ordination and common sense and instincts you can walk out the front door and fall down your steps and break an arm or leg.

So, balance is everything in human survival.

To the Greeks it was and likely still is: "Moderation in all things".

Too Buddhists it is: "The Middle Path" they call Lam Rim which basically means the same thing as "Moderation in all things".

Balance is how people survive to 100. Being to extreme in any direction often is fatal for people. I have watched this all my life now.

And it's very hard to watch friends and relatives die all the time the last 77 years many much younger than they should have died.

I have already buried my two best friends from my youth before age 21, one in 2006 and one in 2011.

It is very hard to lose a good friend and a peer.

It's hard enough losing your parents and grandparents and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins.

But, somehow my wife and children and Grandchildren help give me what I need to keep staying alive another moment and another day.

By God's Grace