Dr. Daniel Amen
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I'm like, if you don't look, you don't know.
How many people are like Andrew, have brains that aren't right, that do bad things that we just label as bad rather than as sick?
And I mean, there was that moment that caused me to lose my anxiety and go to war.
Did he improve?
He got so much better.
And today he's got his own business and his dad and he's married and he has kids.
Yeah.
And we've seen almost 200 synths then.
And how would we know?
unless we looked.
And so, Dostoevsky said, you can tell about the soul of a society not by how it treats its outstanding citizens, but by how it treats its criminals.
And it just... I want to rehabilitate people who do bad things, or at least try, right?
We should look at their brains and see...
Can we get them better?
Can we get them to love their brains so they don't go out and use drugs?
And I was involved in a program in Washington State where they actually screened for ADHD and learning disabilities, made them go through a 14-week course to learn about what they had.
And it cut recidivism from 69% to 29%.
Now, I think this is a conservative idea.
Yeah, it is.
That if you invest...