Dr. Daniel Amen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, sometimes.
Because the goal is never positive thinking.
That's not the goal.
The goal is accurate thinking with a positive spin.
I just published a huge study on 7,500 people on negativity.
And negativity is bad for your brain.
Negativity actually causes your prefrontal cortex, frontal lobes to be lower.
in activity.
And so I'm not a fan of negativity, but I am a fan of being honest.
And that just resonates the most with me.
So the pedophile, he wasn't a pedophile.
It was the worry.
It was the thought.
Of course.
Right.
It's just a rogue thought has gone wrong.
And one of the exercises I give my patients is give your mind a name so you can gain psychological distance from the noise in your head.
I learned that from my friend Stephen Hayes.
And he was on our podcast.
I'm like, give your mind a name.