"Following your heart" is a formula for idiots

Some advice from Jonathan Kay, National Post. Full article.

You have to pick a career that plays to your strengths, allows you to pay the bills and doesn't bore you to death. More importantly, you need a mate who wants the same things out of life's lengthy odyssey as do you.

My lesson learned: In both of these quests, you must be ruthlessly levelheaded. "Following your heart" is a formula for idiots.

I don't mean that people shouldn't fall in love and live life passionately. What I mean is that they shouldn't follow the example of the Hollywood hero who tosses away everything for some beautiful girl he barely knows, or for a shot at stardom. In the movies, this is always the right move. In real life, it's a disaster.

The "heart," as pop culture defines it, is a silly, narcissistic, juvenile thing.