 Many of us think we are logical decision makers who use reason to make our decisions. The reality is a bit different. In his book, The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt explains that most often, intuition comes first followed by strategic reasoning. He goes further and says that we sometimes use reason to confirm the answer that our intuition provided. In Haidt's previous book, The Happiness Hypothesis, he compared two kinds of cognition we use, intuition versus logic, and he compared them to an elephant and its rider. The elephant represents emotion and the rider embodies reason. His metaphor helps us understand that the elephant or intuition has a big say in decision-making and the rider has some. And if you are making post-talk arguments, the rider may be justifying what the elephant did. Lead well this week.