The Reason Why "Follow Your Heart" Is a Bad Advice

You are in a position where, you have to make this major decision that will determine the path your life will take for years to come. Or maybe even determine what the rest of your life will be like.

Torn between option A and option B, you ask someone, maybe a friend, for advice. Your friend tells you to follow your heart. This scenario plays out a lot in many people’s lives, nowadays. But I think this popular advice, although well-intended, is bad advice. I will tell you why.

Your heart can be too emotional!!!

Trust me, your heart can take you places. It can keep you going on the path you’ve chosen for yourself. But when it comes to making critical decisions, your heart can be too emotional to handle it.

Have you ever had to decide on what company to work with and you went for a certain company because you liked the company brand? Although liking the company is a good thing, there are more important, non-emotional things to consider before making such a decision.

Things such as company culture, company politics, work-life balance, vacation, and other benefits, are far more important. The same thing goes when making tough decisions. Sometimes, what is required is hard, cold facts and rational thinking. Emotions are good and there is a place for them.

Your heart can deceive you with its hidden, dark desires!!!

We all have desires, hidden passions... that even our family members and our close friends may not know about. You have them. I have them. As you go about your daily activities and encounter different circumstances, those hidden, and sometimes dark desires, can come to the fore.

This happens even more when you are under any kind of pressure, like the kind of pressure that arises when you have to make a difficult choice. Desires that you know you should not have, desires that civil society frowns at, could lead you into making a poor decision.

You may convince yourself that you are making a certain decision because of this and that reason, but deep down, I mean really deep down, it may be that your reason is that you have a crush on someone involved.

Your real reason may also be that you are afraid to leave your comfort zone, afraid to push yourself and take on new challenges, or because you’re just too lazy. Which is why it is wiser to follow your head and not your heart when making life-changing decisions.

Finally, will it not be much better if the person advising you to follow your heart gives you much-needed information on the things that will enable you to make the best possible decision instead?

For example, sharing with you; their first-hand experiences, or facts, or the experiences of other people, that will put you in a position to make a decision that will be in your best interests makes a great idea. What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments.

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