130 is that this is because we are really…
Page 138, 130 is that this is because we are really made up of two selves, the writer and the elephant. The metaphor can be helpful in distinguishing the conscious, deliberate, rational, reasoning, self from the unconscious, emotional reasoning self. The elephant and the writer metaphor was first used by Jonathan hate in 2006 to contrast processes under our control with those that are automatic, but we are using it somewhat differently here.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
We are all made of multiple, internally divided selves, which is exactly why a person can hold two contradictory wishes at once. There is the self that lives each moment and the self that remembers it afterward. And there is more than one you in daylight, too — the private self, the social self that lives in how we imagine others see us, and the narrative self that strings it all into a story. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)