Every time I go to the dentist, I spend all my waiting room time gazing at the office aquarium. The quiet hum and movement of sea creatures calms me instantly. On a recent visit, however, when I arrived at the dentist’s waiting room there was no soothing, motorized hum, instead, I found someone working on the aquarium. This man was lovingly scrubbing at some of the unwanted algae, and scooping up various bits of God knows what from crevices in the coral.

Have you ever had one of these thoughts: How do I parse through this tsunami of (research, data, facts and figures, etc.), and make it meaningful to someone else? How do I quiet the noise in my mind, long enough to form a coherent argument or recommendation? How do I take something incredibly complex and make it simpler to comprehend?