There is a nice book by Jonathan Haidt about this called The Happiness Hypothesis. He uses a "Elephant and Rider" psychological metaphor to describe the intern

There is a nice book by Jonathan Haidt about this called The Happiness Hypothesis. He uses a "Elephant and Rider" psychological metaphor to describe the internal battle between our rational mind (the rider) and our emotional, intuitive drives (the elephant). We think the rider is in control. But he isn’t!