The flea and the elephant
The flea and the elephant. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do but what I hate I do. The apostle Paul. 878. You’re brilliant amazing conscious mind. The human brain is most remarkable versatile, powerful creation. We know it it’s roughly 100,000,000,000 neuron cell past messages to one another through as many as one quadrillion connection.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit
In the book
It can hold two opposed ideas at the same time and keep flying; it can also lie to you so smoothly that you will swear you are seeing the truth. The Apostle Paul caught the bewilderment of it: I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate, that I do. You have felt this — every person has. — The Mind in the Cockpit