Dr. Alok Kanojia

Because when someone turns to you and says, you are ugly, you are stupid,

In order to defend against that, you have to say, no, I'm not.

I am beautiful.

I am intelligent.

And the more times that you say that to yourself, this is where things get complicated, but that doesn't result in confidence.

So I don't know if this makes sense, but if you are confident, you don't need to say that I'm smart.

or that I'm beautiful.

Does that kind of make sense?

Yeah, so I think you're doing a really important thing, which is like a key takeaway.

So when someone dislikes what you do, you think about them and not you.

That's the opposite of ego, right?

So if we take someone who's very narcissistic and they receive a criticism, they say, no, no, no, I'm great, right?

So this is where like literally, I don't know if this is too abstract, but I'll give kind of like maybe a simpler example of this.

So-

You know, I trained in Boston and there was a lot of K2 use.

So K2 is like synthetic marijuana.

And so like sometimes like you walk into the emergency room, there's a dude who's like high on math or like high on K2.

Like, you know, he's just saying all kinds of terrible things.

That has nothing to do with me.

Right.