"innate instinct" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an instinct that is naturally and instinctively possessed by someone or something. For example, "My innate instinct told me to turn around and go the other way."
Kids are also OK, and many climber parents soon get theirs scaling the walls (it really is a basic, innate instinct in many children).
"Maybe you can't learn innate instinct, to use that word, but you can teach a feel for the game, and that happens with repetition," Ojeda said.
In a study published this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they propose that this plethora of counterfeit patterns has evolved to exploit birds' innate instinct to avoid potential predators.
The innate instinct of the Premier League is to stick with the model that has served them so well and the looming tender is likely to be closely modelled on the last one that divided the 154 live matches into seven packages.
In every sport there are some who have such a God-given, God-like (God, I'm jealous) innate instinct for what they do that if you asked them to explain it, analyse it or deconstruct it they wouldn't have a clue.
Zuckerberg sees his mission cutting across the right and left, focused on our innate instinct to gather and organize.
Perhaps our educational institutions should teach the consequences of common hazardous teenage activities instead of attacking teenagers' innate instincts, and leaving them to find the answers themselves.
As humans most of us are inherently good at reading people and our innate instincts for "fit" are much better than our ability to analyze humans on a spreadsheet.
According to scouts, his ability on the basepaths is due to innate instincts and his "twitch speed" rather than his pure running speed.
The point here is that simply declaring that we are unafraid, or that we should be, is not enough to make it so, and appeals like Bruce Schneier's in The Atlantic to "Keep Calm and Carry On", laudable as they are, are naïve, because we simply can not completely overpower our innate instincts for self-preservation.
Being properly realistic in our lives and careers doesn't have to mean conforming to the world's most easily available and ready-made patterns, but rather can center on trusting our own innate instincts to guide us into what's real and right for us as the individuals we are.
