Dr. Paul Conti

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Huberman Lab · Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti · 4 May 2026 podcast

And then now maybe I might want to put those words outside of me in writing or in speech, or I might want to talk to a trusted other, or I might want to see a therapist about it.

So it's taking the strong emotion that can keep us from understanding, which can get very complicated.

If we bring fear to our past, we're going to see it through the lens of fear.

If I know I can look at my past and I don't have to be afraid, even if it raises difficult emotion in me, I'm much more likely to keep a calm presence of mind and then to learn some things about myself.

No.

I mean, it's just a clear no.

Often enough, the answer then is no.

We tend to have a bias in us towards the negative and we don't stop and think, hey, you know, I did that really well.

Or, you know, that didn't come out the way I wanted it to, but I learned from it.

Or it didn't come out the way I wanted to, but I really tried.

And we tend not to do that.

And this bias towards the negative means we then start making the stories of ourselves about the negative.

Or we feel like, well, if I look at what I've done right, you know, what's gone right in my life or what is going right, then I'll get complacent or like, what is there to be gained from that?

I'm going to look at what's not the way I want it to be.

And really quite the opposite is true, right?

If we're looking at what's gone well in our life, at our successes and even things that weren't successes, maybe from the outside, but hey, I grew, I learned something.

The school of hard knocks taught me something, you know, then we are bolstering ourselves.

We're empowering ourselves.

ourselves by doing that.

So we should all do a lot more of that and we wouldn't become complacent, right?

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