Dr. Michael Gervais

And he's just pointing to like, if you put in the work,

You might get close.

You would definitely get better.

And I hold that same framing for the becoming of your very best.

What I mean by that more particularly is dealing with stress well, dealing with frustration well, dealing with things that don't go according to plan well, working with emotions well.

And the world right now is saying we're more anxious, more depressed, more addicted, more suicide ideation, more loneliness than we've seen in our lifetime at least.

And so the health of the world, the mental health of the world is not great right now.

And that's because the external conditions are thorny and they're fast and they're moving in what seems to be erratic ways, meaning AI is coming in.

The way that we're working has really changed in a lot of ways, not just because of AI, but because of COVID and because of the aspirations of how we want to live our lives.

The old way is not working.

I give you the best of me to the company and the company says, here's some money.

That no longer works.

So there's a new model that's happening for us and we're still forming our ways through it.

Okay, so back to my original point is if you want to live in a way where you have buoyancy and joy and happiness and a fire in your belly and this feeling behind your eyes to get after it, a connection with other people, then you need to train the skills.

And those skills are psychological skills.

Now, what we have inhabited is from our parents and grandparents.

We have adopted this way of thinking about psychology that it's for the weak, it's for those that don't have their stuff together, it's taboo.

That is changing, not fast enough.

And I would just suggest that if you want to live your very best life, I don't understand a way

through that aspiration without training your own mind without knowing how your mind works how your emotions work together and that really is for me what the definition of psychology is it's the study of yourself so that you can build the right tools to live with joy and happiness purpose and meaning connection fill in the blanks just like i was saying to the singer i wish i could