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The Elephant Is Working the Rider
Jonathan Haidt is a colleague of yours. His metaphors are always very on point in sort of painting a picture of what's going on that's not visible, he says. He uses an analogy about the mind being like an elephant with a rider on top. And so this idea that so much of the mind's work is happening on autopilot or something else is sort of working us as the elephant is working the rider. Do you agree with that analogy?