How was one life changed by three intuition-based decisions?

His most vivid memory from early childhood was pain and the smell of hospitals. He found it equally easy with gangsters and the most prominent artists of the times – as a child he could not always recognise the latter. He used to trust his intuition when trying to figure out what he wanted from life, whether he had learnt it or had it as an innate skill. Meanwhile, some of the most trusted people would abolish what Astor thought he needed most of all – because they just felt like that – but would literally save him as a future tango revolutioniser.