Danny ChaiI have a theory about noonchi. That’s that Korean concept, I guess you’d translate it as “intuition” or “social sense”. But the idea is, if you have noonchi, you have this social sense such that you understand things intuitively without anything being said. Girls supposedly tend to have it, guys supposedly tend to not have it. And girls frequently get down on guys for not having more noonchi.
So here’s my theory. I don’t think noonchi comes without a cost. Yes, if you have noonchi, you may be able to intuit certain social things. But I think it’s accompanied with a fair amount of false positives. That is, you incorrectly read into social things where there is actually nothing there. And the people with the most supposed noonchi also do the most freaking out about signals and signs that aren’t really there.
And that’s my theory.