Reggie's teacher says," Your heart is in the wrong place. The heart is not, as is so often seen on television, in the center of the chest". This is a distinction without a difference. Most anatomy texts will say the heart is in the center of the chest but tilted slightly to the left. If you look at the midline of the sternum, the heart extends a little more to the left than to the right but is still mostly behind the sternum.