Kelly Boys teaches meditation and emotional intelligence to tech companies, veterans, prison inmates, humanitarian workers, and psychotherapists. She directed the launch of a facilitator training for the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, based on Google’s neuroscience-based emotional intelligence and mindfulness program; created a Peace on Purpose program for the United Nations Foundation; and has trained frontline humanitarian workers in the Middle East. Kelly is the author of The Blind Spot Effect: How to Stop Missing What’s Right in Front of You (Sounds True, July 2018), from which this article was adapted. Kelly lives in Sausalito, California. kellyboys.org