Dr. Daniel Amen
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And he's like, well, family's important to us.
And she said, and we have a wicked drug education campaign.
And he's like, oh, we should do that.
And so I wrote my friend at the White House.
I'm like, you have to teach people to love their brain first.
before you tell them something's bad for them.
Because as soon as you tell them something's bad for them, they want to do it, right?
In the book of Genesis, God says, don't eat from the tree.
The next scene, they're eating from the tree.
So I was God and I never try to play God.
But if I was God and I was counseling God, I'd like, tell them if they eat from the tree, she's going to have to wear clothes.
And that they're going to get kicked out.
It's like, tell them, ask them what they want.
And then, well, what's the consequences?
And so the first thing is teach them to love their brains.
And if you love it because it controls everything you do, well, why would you hurt it unless you were not that smart?
But you got to have that foundational step.
I call it brain envy.
I always say Freud was wrong.
Penis envy is not the cause of anybody's problem.