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the half-second your gut spends arguing with your future self about a mistake.
means An unwillingness or hesitation to do something, the inner drag you feel when part of you would rather not.
from From Latin reluctari, "to struggle against" — luctari meaning "to wrestle" (a cousin of the word that gives us "reluctant"), with the prefix re- adding the sense of pushing back. So buried inside the word is a literal wrestling match: you, grappling with the thing you don't want to do.
- physics unit
- reluctance is a real measure of magnetic resistance
- latin root
- means to struggle or fight back against
- body tell
- shows in pauses before pronouns even drop
- survival edge
- hesitation evolved to keep ancestors off the menu