Doctor Mike

And so I'll use a battery of assessments to figure out where people need work, and then we'll talk about putting a scientific plan together in their life to get more of it.

And so that's how I think about this whole basic idea.

It's very possible.

It's very possible.

One of the things that I find is that strivers, real strivers, like uber successful people, they're all a little...

Crazy.

And by that, I don't mean that clinically.

There's not some clinical- That's not psychosis.

It's not.

No, I don't mean psychosis.

I don't mean that actually something diagnosable that needs clinical attention.

But what they are doing, generally speaking, is that they're doing something that doesn't pass personal cost-benefit calculus.

They're doing something that systematically is very, very, very costly.

And the reason for that, generally speaking, is that there's a little bit of a pathology

the mentality of a lot of really really successful people and they a lot of them have this sort of this same story super strivers are deeply afraid of failure and they're deeply addicted to winning and It usually starts when their kids their little kids they come from a lot from immigrant families not always but from from pretty exigent parents

And the parents administer, they can be great parents.

It's not to cast aspersions, but they only really get attention and affection from their parents when they do extraordinary things.

Like all A's on the report card.

Like you made the baseball team, first chair in the orchestra.

And their little brains wire in this period of unbelievably high synaptic plasticity, which when you're a kid, that love is earned.