Consider this article...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/528151/the-importance-of-feelings/
It goes into some detail about how the mind is only emergent from emotions, not logic or reason. More importantly, it mentions a study (which I'm having trouble finding) as such...
"His insight, dating back to the early 1990s, stemmed from the clinical study of brain lesions in patients unable to make good decisions because their emotions were impaired, but whose reason was otherwise unaffected..."
Now, if I could remember the study correctly, this is a rather generous description. There was at least one patient who's emotional center was so damaged that a decision of chicken or turkey for lunch was paralyzing. He literally could not decide...he could rationalize the choice between the two, but he couldn't choose without a desire of one or the other.
I know it seems like you reason your way towards a choice...but you don't...the science suggests there's an emotional basis for every decision you make.