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The best metaphor I have seen for the relationship between conscious and unconscious minds comes from Jonathan Haidt’s excellent and very readable book ‘The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science’. He likens these two aspects of our selves to an elephant and its rider. The rider represents the ‘controlled’ processes of the mind, the planning and reasoning that takes place one step at a time in conscious awareness, while the elephant represents the hundreds of automatic operations we carry out every second outside of conscious awareness. Read the rest of this entry »
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