Dr. Amir Levine
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like, she sped up so we can cross the street faster.
So all of a sudden he gave me like a different sort of way of looking at it.
Yes.
And, you know, since then, and he actually said something, oh, wow, you really shifted your way.
I decided, okay, you know, I'm going to adopt this.
And then whenever, like, I don't drive much, but whenever I see people do something like butting in or in traffic, I say, well, they made a mistake.
Or they just like, yeah, they didn't really see what's coming.
And sort of like, actually, I found that I give them more the benefit of the doubt.
And he said, oh, wow, that's been a real shift.
So I really try, whatever I write there, I also use myself to help myself.
Because it's really more about...
Again, it's about the exploratory drive.
Why would I spend my energy getting upset about someone else if I can see it in a little bit different way?
Yes.
And it frees up more energy for me to think, to write, to do all the things that I want to do.
Yes.
And sort of create those better scenes.
So I had a very β it's like I feel β again, it was like β
I feel very fortunate that I had a very unusual upbringing in the sense that my mom had very progressive ideas about education.
And so I basically, she also grew up in that same kind of like educational, the school that she went to, they never actually believed in grades.