The brain may be the bossiest part of the body; it tells every other body part exactly what to do and how to do it, whether people are aware of it or not. It produces every thought, action, memory, feeling, and experience in the world, It is even in charge when people are asleep. As magical and wonderful as this muscle is, there are some restrictions, maybe even shortcomings, that need some adjusting.
Logical thinking is to think on the basis of knowledge and certainties, the only flaw with the idea is that it relies on the conscious mind. As people assume more and more responsibilities in their world of work, they often find it more difficult to make decisions that are logical and rational on a regular basis, this is why acquiring good decision making skills is an important skill to possess.
Jean Piaget, a clinical psychologist, considered the ability to reason logically one of the pinnacles of human development. People seem to make logical inferences from time to time, like when combining information to deduce the unknown, but people do not think like this constantly and it can even be argued that if they did it would be a waste of energy.
For example, students might want to sit down and think about which college they would like to go to or which career path they will choose, but when faced with an attacking lion, people are not going to ask it to take a step back while they think all of their options through logically, they will simply run.
This does not mean logic is something we need to use either, many people have done very well without using it to determine their choices because sometimes people just want to feel rather than to think things through.
When our ancestors had to survive in a hostile environment, it might have been necessary for them to think in a way in which logic was not on their side. To illustrate, if they saw something rustling in the trees, it could have been a leopard about to prance on them, but it would more likely have been the wind. When their survival depended upon the remote possibility of it being the leopard, they would not have liked to have taken any risks even though they knew the rational explanation.
It is said that emotions drive about 80% of the decisions Americans make, while rationality and objectivity represent a measly 20% of our daily verdicts. Moreover if you make any decisions when you’re hungry, angry, lonely, or tired (or some combination of these), emotions will win the battle 100% of the time. There will be countless number of decision to make in a lifetime, the important thing is that the individual makes the right choice for their life at that time, be it logical or not.