Dr. K

People will say to me, Dr. K, I have no motivation.

That's incorrect.

You have a ton of motivation.

You have a ton of motivation to stay home.

You have a ton of motivation to play video games.

There is such a powerful drive to return to the couch.

So identity shapes motivation.

Dr. K, thank you so much for being here.

A loser is an adaptation that our mind forms to protect ourselves.

If I think of myself as a loser, other people will pick up on that empathic energy and they will think of me as a loser as well.

So a loser never has imposter syndrome.

We need to be defiant in the face of the world.

We need to be doing stupid action.

Not giving up means being an idiot.

Let go of the possibility of it ever happening.

99% of karma happens in here.

When you have a thought, how do you respond to that thought that is technically an action?

One of the hardest challenges I have as a psychiatrist who works with high performers is

I mean, my goal and what I try to help a lot of people do is to get rid of identity entirely.

So if we look at the function of identity, you're spot on that your identity is the lens through which you view the world.