The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

Some knowing arrives without an argument attached. You can find yourself certain that a person is wrong for you, or that a job is quietly eroding you, long before you can lay out the case. That certainty is not irrational so much as compressed, built from pattern and feeling that never made it into words. Treating it as noise because it will not defend itself in a debate throws away real information.

When a decision splits you, try writing what you feel first and the reasons second. Then check whether the reasons are honest or whether they were assembled afterwards to justify what you had already chosen.