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531) I lost my smell for a day, but it got me thinking how I've lost most of my other senses (not physically; but really). 

532) Confidence in general is a belief in one's abilities, and a result of heightened awareness which is derived from the attuned physical senses like smell. 

533) A "sense of purpose" is not like a sense but might be related to confidence, which results from attuned senses. It's hard to have purpose without confidence or well-tuned physical senses. 

534) Split-second decisions are the result of instincts, which are tuned or de-tuned based on the state of one's sensory system. 

535) It takes skill and experience to make decisions based on logic instead of instinct; not to say that instinct-driven decisions are wrong or right, but instinct can sometimes get too much weight when trying to apply logic or reason.