Doctor Mike

Or it's so beautiful and tell me about your grandchildren and it's you're laughing and you know each other because you see each other's soul.

So shared story, this is the essence of humanity.

That's really what it's all about as far as I'm concerned.

If you want to replace fear with love, because fear and love are fundamentally cognitive opposites,

Fear and hatred.

Hatred is very downstream from fear.

And if there's fear, which is actually leading to these implacable hostilities that are being fomented by activists and productized by media and politics today, if you want to get beyond that, shared story will bring out love.

Yeah.

Yeah, or even get to the point where persuasion is possible, where you can say, oh, I disagree with that, but maybe facade might.

Tell me more.

That's so interesting that you think about it differently than me.

Yeah, we lost that.

That's right.

And you know, the interesting thing is that most people are able to do that with their neighbors and friends.

Most people still are able to do that.

And even that's being lost.

Yeah.

I mean, one in six Americans is not talking to a family member or a close personal friend today because of politics, which is just insane.

It's just insane.

Oh, yeah.