Cognition is your strongest design sense: the deepest layer of how your body perceives the world, running underneath thought and long before words. Everyone has one dominant channel through which the body gathers its most reliable information, and knowing yours means you can finally trust it on purpose instead of doubting it by habit.
This is why hands-on always beats theory for you. A description of a material tells you little; feeling it tells you everything. You likely make up your mind about objects by handling them, about spaces by moving through them physically, about food by its texture in your hands and mouth. You learn a craft by doing it, not by reading about it. Given a real thing to make contact with, your body reads it accurately and fast; kept at arm's length from the actual substance of something, your knowing goes quiet and uncertain.
It works with people too. Physical presence tells you what words and screens cannot. A handshake, a hug, sitting in the same room, being close enough to feel someone's actual energy: this is how you truly register a person. You can know more about someone from a moment of real contact than from hours of talking at a distance, because your deepest sense reads through proximity and touch rather than through analysis.
Treat this as an instrument to honour rather than override. Get your hands on things before you decide about them. Be in the room, in person, in contact, when something matters. Give yourself the direct physical experience your body needs instead of settling for the description of it. When you let yourself know through touch and nearness, the way you are built to, your read on the world becomes steady, immediate, and quietly certain.