So, are you led by your head or by your heart? That is an age-old question if ever there was one, and one of those rare questions where everyone you ask seems to have a very automatic response.
Do you make your decisions based on what your head tells you or on your heart wants?
People led by their heart are usually romantics; I’ve noticed that they tend to trust their gut and follow their instincts which rarely lead them astray. In my observations, these tend to be the people who trust things to somehow “work out” and worry less about the details of how they are going to get there. You know, the writers, singers, and poets of the world.
People that are led by their head, on the other hand, tend to be more analytical, logical, and come to conclusions based upon the evidence that is presented to them. In other words, the mathematicians, accountants, and historians of the world.
If the heart is dreaming, the head is planning. The head believes in hard facts. Being someone strongly led by my heart, I've always marveled at the ability these people have to be decidedly logical.
Sometimes it’s funny to think about the discrepancy between the two; the heart is hope, the head is realism. The heart is living your life on instinct, and the head is living your life on evidence. It’s something that I am reminded of every time that I hear myself say, “Trust me, I have a gut feeling this is going to work out,” and I know that people who are led by their head have to take a step back to ask, “Yes, but what steps are you going to take to make sure that is the case?"
The head and the heart complement each other but are rarely found in the same person, I have observed. People led by their heart will always follow their gut because no matter how hard they fight it, they will have that eternal hope, that unparalleled intuition. And people led by their head will always follow the evidence, being inquisitive enough to go beyond their gut inclination and look for even more proof.
One is not better than the other; they are simply different. Which are you, head or heart?
