Flying often involves doing counter-intuitive things. That's why the path to safe aviation has been so long and costly in lives. We learn to trust the instruments, not our feelings. We learn to trust our instructors, even when they tell us to do things that seem instinctively wrong.
"Crash-landing is a counter-intuitive exercise. Fly fast enough to fully control the areoplane. Land with as much landing gear down as possible. Land on a hard prepared smooth surface if possible. Stay strapped in until it stops completely"...
......Not my words - advice I was given forty years ago.
I doubted it then but everything I have seen and experienced since confirms it was absolutely the correct advice - and remains so today.