Dr. Paul Conti

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

I think maybe from the psychological perspective, yes and no.

I think if we get too over-reductionist, there's a single force of good and there's a single force of evil.

I think our major religious tenets, I think, do see...

the world we live in is more complicated than that, that there's more than just a single force of good and a single force of evil, because then I think what we tend to do is over-identify.

Either I want to be the good force, but I can't be good enough, and I've done something wrong, and now I feel bad about myself because now I feel evil because I don't feel good

enough, or I feel that the evil in the world is clearly coming for me and it's directed for me, it's a force directed at me, we can tend to personify then good and evil and either over-identify or feel that we're beleaguered.

So if we over-identify that we want to be good and we do something wrong, we feel bad.

That there can be a push towards self-persecuting or really not understanding ourselves if we oversimplify.

If we think in a broader way, which I do think is consistent with spirituality, and I think it's consistent with the spirituality of major religious traditions, then we see there are forces for good.

There are pushes towards good in the universe around us, and that includes within us.

And there are forces towards what is not good, towards looking the other way, for example, from someone's perspective.

needs, not something that's pure evil.

Most of us aren't going to step on someone when they're down, but could we be tempted to look the other way?

If we see there's a lot of subtlety and nuance to how good and evil plays out in the world around us and inside of ourselves, then I think we're viewing ourselves and the world around us much more consistent with what religion says, and I think also where science guides us and is more and more guiding us as we have more and more knowledge and understanding.

Now we feel that we're part of something greater than us, right?

There are forces that push towards good and forces that push towards evil, forces that push towards construction and towards destruction.

And we know how we want to be and where we want to be in that spectrum.

We want to be generative and we want to be making the world better than we left it.

We want to be bettering ourselves.

Now we're being, I think, much more true to the reality that we are.

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