I always take questions at the end of my talks, and recently I distinctly remember a woman in the back of the room that said, ” Elizabeth, I attended one of your talks recently, and you told us about the monkey in our heads. That really helped me. Can you tell that story again?”

So here goes:

Your mind is like a monkey. It goes from thought to thought for hours on end. It rattles on so much that we often don’t have any idea about what is going on up there at all. Continue reading →