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By Amy Quinde<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFollow your heart.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cPursue your passion.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cDo what\u2019s in your heart.\u201d <\/span>You probably hear this often, from your friends and family, your teachers, even the media.\u00a0 In your heart, even if you\u2019re very young, you tend to know what makes you happy.\u00a0 You may even know what your passion is.\u00a0 Yet, at the same time, you\u2019re getting mixed messages.\u00a0 People very close to you simultaneously stress the importance of choosing a well-informed life path that makes sense in today\u2019s world, finding a career that pays well and is in high demand, and attending a university that is well-respected and doesn\u2019t leave you and your family saddled with debt.\u00a0 A rational choice is best, they say.\u00a0 You may also not know yet what you truly want and like, and how these preferences would fit into what the world offers or provide a good standard of living.<\/p>\n

Life wisdom often leads to this truth:\u00a0life choices based solely on pure passion OR what simply \u201cmakes the most logical sense\u00bb can lead to regret.\u00a0 Ideally, they fuse both!\u00a0 <\/strong>In fact, psychotherapists say that the best course of action a person can take is one at the intersection of your feelings and your rational thoughts.\u00a0 For example, this could be applied when choosing the right person to marry.\u00a0 You may be head-over-heels in love with a party-loving alcoholic who can\u2019t seem to keep a job, but you know he wouldn\u2019t make a responsible father.\u00a0 It\u2019s best to find someone whose lifestyle, life, and financial goals match yours, whom you also love.\u00a0 The same goes for making a decision about a career.\u00a0 To use the cliche of basket-weaving, you may love doing it, but the chances are it will not lead to a viable career in modern times (unless you can figure out a way to monetize it via your own business).\u00a0 There is usually a solution, but it needs to come from a passionate place\u2014 and that passion needs to be shaped by a logical solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

In many cases, parents and students alike use emotion more than anything to drive their college and career decisions\u2014 even financial ones.\u00a0 Picking the right college, the right major, or the right classes is a challenge because students and parents lack the basic tools to make logical comparisons between options.\u00a0 For example, colleges today want to hook prospective students on feelings first in hopes that they will enroll at any cost, no matter how high it is.\u00a0 Yet, weighing potential college debt against practical concerns like potential earnings is a calculation few families seem to make during the process.\u00a0 As a result, students make selections based on a fuzzy concept called \u00abfit,\u00bb using haphazard suggestions from peers and magazines, misguided advice from uninformed advisors, personal biases about the college, and the marketing-inspired \u00abdog and pony show\u00bb they experience on college visits.\u00a0 Too often the reason students make such choices, according to William Bowen, author of Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America\u2019s Public Universities<\/a>, is some \u00abcombination of inertia, lack of information, lack of forward planning for college, and lack of encouragement.<\/a>\u00bb\u00a0 At the same time, parents are increasingly understanding the importance of college value and getting a return on their money.\u00a0 Consequently, they tend to push their child into a lucrative career at a high-status school when neither the career nor the school is an authentic fit.\u00a0 All formulas set the student up for less-than-ideal outcomes.<\/p>\n

Katherine Orr, a children’s book author, wrote, \u00abA good education will make you free to choose in life what you will.\u00a0 But always remember this: the head was meant to serve the heart, not the other way around.\u00bb\u00a0 It’s crucial for students to understand themselves better so that they can make an informed decision that incorporates both their head (intellect, logic, reason, information, practicality, something that could lead to a well-paying career) and their heart (what they love, their passion, what truly makes them happy).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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