Head vs. Heart: Discover Your Decision-Making Style with This 10-Second Test

Based on logical reasoning "brain" rather than emotional guidance "heart. Knowing what you naturally tend to prefer can shed light on how you make decisions in romantic relationships, in professional life, and in your own development. The 10-second visual task is adopted as the pathway to decode your spontaneous win-decision profile.

The 10-Second Visual Test: 

During the test, an image with two independent interpretations is presented. If visible, the feature that you first see represents your most common tendency to choose: 

As profiles of one man and one woman: meeting each other grab the attention of one at first, it appears to be an evidence for an inductive, totally rational, purely reasoning-based selection in decision making. Consistently, when making decisions, individuals tend to reach for the evidence, information, and pure analysis. They are logical (i.e. assessing pros and cons prior to logical decision making). In this paradigm, there is less impulsive, and, consequently, more deliberate and substantiative pragmatic decision.

Apple Core: On the other hand, it is in the state if the pit is presented first that this means a heart-driven, emotionally driven mode of decision processing. Such people are sensitive to emotions not only in themselves but also in others and on occasion employ empathy and intuition in the decision-making process. They are responsive to interpersonal relationships, and are more likely to assign a greater role to harmony, compassion than to pure and logical reasoning. Through the use of this technique, there is an achievement of a tight personal attachment and a deep sense of personal good.

Balancing Head and Heart: 

Acknowledging your innate inclination is intuitive, but training a proper balance between reasoning and feeling can lead to better decision-making efficiency. Integrating analytical intelligence with EQ allows for more comprehensive decisions, which incorporate not just objective outcome, but also the subjective outcome (i.e., how to effectively control its internal and external consequences).

In a workplace, e.g., demonstrating leadership in domain's design and implementation of head serve strategy and nurturing heart-focused empathy, fosters rapport and (positive) morale among a team. During interpersonal relations, this equilibrium can contribute to more adaptive and intertwined relationships.

Implications in Various Life Aspects: 

Relationships: Emotionally driven people can jump into a relationship as fueling their bond, even if there is a red flag. From a subjective viewpoint, compatibility can be thus sufficiently predicted from an objective viewpoint as well by a subject, by disregarding emotional rushes. It is through the attainment of an equilibrium that bonds can be at the same time emotionally fulfilling and materially sustaining.

Career Decisions: The analytical/logic type could flourish in a structured environment and base decision making on information/predicted outcome. Empathic individuals may benefit from holding positions career that are emotionally demanding (e.g., psychotherapy or arts). Nevertheless, it is also feasible to generate creative solutions and a harmonious manpower situation by employing the combined method.

Personal Growth: Self-awareness of one's decision-making style can guide personal development. Practically speaking, from the position of a logical person, practices such as vulnerability and emotional inquiry can be useful, and even from a pleasureary point of view, improvement of critical thinking may be attained for the emotionally inclined. This balance brings about an individual with layered properties and a multilevel capacity to deal with everyday life incidents.

Whether you predominantly use rational thoughts or emotions can tell us much about your behaviour and how you make decisions. Despite the relevances of each approach, synergistic development of logic and emotion resolution may lead to more inclusive and satisfying decisions. Engagement in mindfulness practices such as introspection and applications, of the type the 10-second visual test is, can act as the starting point towards this equilibrated state, improving multiple aspects of most aspects of life, from relationships to professional activities.