When people talk about the heart, sometimes they mean the literal organ that sits in your chest and pumps blood. But in large part Western cultures tend to relegate mentions of the heart as relating to things like feelings & emotions, sentiments & romance; or we might use heart to describe the ways someone works at doing something difficult as working with all their heart, or an athlete who plays with heart.
But when it comes to how we live, the function of the heart is much more than how we feel or the level of grit. The reason our heart matters so much is because it actually shapes and directs our actions, choices and behaviors. Tune in to catch some thought-provoking truths about how our heart shapes who we become.