But if you focus not just on the siesta, but on shared experience, curiosity, collaboration, and civic care, then you are riding the horse. You are not racing against the horse. We, as neuroplastically endowed human beings, can switch to this riding-the-horse, campfire-not-wildfire mode, but only if we give our neural systems time to reflect, to grow, and to clear our cache. Not just siesta, but deep reflective conversations like the one we are having now.