“You can’t reason someone out of a mindset that they didn’t reason themself into.”

I read that last night in my book “Dear Debbie” by Frieda McFadden. (If you don’t know who she is, you’re missing out.) It resonated with me so much.

I’m a logical person. Sure, I have emotions. I can be emotional. But I’m a logical thinker. I have to know why. Why are we doing it this way? Why did this change? Why can’t it be fixed? Why should this happen? If I can get the “why,” I can get the rest. To me, that seems logical.

Recently, I’ve been told, “You keep trying to make sense out of something that doesn’t make sense.” That resonated with me, too.

I’m a logical thinker. I act on logic. I do not act on emotion. Acting on emotions creates rash, impulsive decisions that leave you in disarray. Emotional thinking fixes the moment, the symptom, not the long term, and certainly not the problem.

There are so many things that I’ve done that emotionally suck. Emotionally it hurts my heart. But logically, it’s what I have to do to get stuff accomplished.

Just because I don’t act on emotions does not mean I don’t have them. Make no mistake. Oftentimes, I take the high road because it’s just the right thing to do. It’s just who I am. I found out really quickly that not everyone is like that. Again, it’s just who I am. I want the maximum result with the least amount of damage.

“You can’t reason someone out of a mindset that they didn’t reason themself into.”