The Right Brain and the Muse

He attributes a lot of this creativity and this insight to the muse, which is this kind of impersonal force that maybe everyone has their own muse. And if you just put in the work and you trust, then the muse will guide you. He does psychology by way of mythology, which is a kind of maybe, you could say it's a right-brained way of doing things. In fact, I think you suggested that when people talk in metaphors like this and they kind of personify things, that's kind of like what the right brain typically does. The right brain does personify everything.