The author recounts the tragedy of truth-telling in consulting.

Our new understanding of brain development can helps us better discern the child’s natural cognitive and behavioral inclinations, and therefore how to harmonize their emotions, logical models.

…If (a) the sensory signal patterns have not roused the front-line emotional guards, and (b) the brain decides there’s time for a more deliberate analysis, then the patterns are sent up to the rational PFC (prefrontal cortex) tecchie upstairs, which keeps a library of models of cool logic, abstracted from knowledge and experience…