Doctor Mike

I mean, I found myself two weeks ago, here's what I found myself saying.

You know, first class of the United Airlines has really gone downhill.

You're like, where's my life flat seat?

That's right.

It's like unbelievable.

And that's how we're made.

And we're made because the negativity bias is highly, highly protective.

Gratitude is something that we have to use to override our negativity bias.

Ingratitude is the norm.

And that's why we're always looking for the next crisis.

That's why everything's always got to suck.

Life is objectively better.

Look,

Politicians are objectively less corrupt than they were 50 years ago.

And yet we think they're more corrupt because we have to think everything sucks.

That's the problem with homo sapiens.

A lot, a lot, a lot.

That's right.

And so if you're a countercultural, the way to be countercultural is to systematically override your negativity bias, to bring love where there is suspicion, fear, and hate, to bring gratitude where you see ingratitude.

To do that in your own life and do that in the life of other people is truly the most transgressive countercultural thing you can do.