Doctor Mike

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're happy.

Mother Nature wants you to pass on your genes and survive a second day.

That's what she wants.

And if you're a miserable mess, but you're passing on your genes, then she's like totally digging it.

And that's a problem.

That means human beings with this unbelievable prefrontal cortex allows us to choose not our animal impulses, but our moral aspirations.

This is the most amazing thing about being human.

You can choose not to eat that piece of cake.

You can choose not to be unfaithful to your spouse.

You can choose not to cheat on your taxes because you realize a better life is in your moral aspirations, not in your animal impulses.

Choose your animal impulses.

Sorry, man, you're not going to be happy.

Choose things that go against your animal impulses.

Be at war with them.

You know, which most...

No, every good philosopher is taught.

Every serious religion is taught.

Then you can have a life under your own management is what it comes about.

Whether or not the religions are right or not, they're teaching you something about what human life actually is, to be freed from this notion that if I just do the thing that I want to do that feels good, then I'll actually get happier.

I mean, clinicians are coping with all the time.