What if your mind operated like the Starship Enterprise — and you were the captain?

In my book The Rubik's Cube of the Human Mind, I explore exactly that. Think about Kirk's bridge crew: Spock is your logic — precise, analytical, always calculating the odds. Dr. McCoy is your emotion — raw, passionate, and demanding that life mean something. Scotty is your subconscious — the hidden engine room quietly running the systems you never think about. And Captain Kirk? That's you. The conscious decision-maker is responsible for synthesizing it all into forward motion.

The problem is, most of us aren't actually sitting in the captain's chair. We're either letting Spock run cold and emotionless, McCoy run hot and reactive, or we've abandoned the bridge altogether — drifting through life on autopilot.

True command isn't about silencing any one voice. It's about conducting the symphony they create together. When you master that — when logic, emotion, intuition, and discipline work in concert — you stop reacting to life and start authoring it.

That's what it truly takes to be human.

Read the full story in The Rubrik Cube for the Human Mind — available Fall 2026."