Why Not To Follow Your Heart

Justin Patton
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

When we live by the popular quote “follow your heart”, we eliminate 50% of the tools that we have in order to make a decision. Regardless of what we have been taught or learned through culture, we have the ability to think rational for a reason.

Please don’t ‘X’ out of this page just yet! I understand what I am saying is completely backwards from what most of us have been taught, including myself. However it is…

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Justin Patton

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Spoken word artist and writer. Living my life and writing about it along the way, it just might inspire somebody. IG: @iamjustinpatton

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