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Comment author: TimS 27 January 2012 02:25:12AM 1 point [-]

"My elephant wants a brownie."

Could someone explain this reference?

Comment author: steven0461 27 January 2012 03:17:31AM 6 points [-]

It's a metaphor used in Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis: the rider is the conscious or deliberative mind and the elephant is everything underneath.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 January 2012 03:25:43AM 3 points [-]

More to the point, the analogy is used in one of Luke's posts.

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