Dr. Paul Conti

Maybe there's a primary care doc getting up and doing the job because people rely on that person.

There's something in us that's at the core of our humanness.

And this is when we're happy.

Again, it's not a Pollyanna concept.

When you see humans that are happy, and we have a lot of data about this too, people who age happily, who've had a lot of trauma or tragedy in their life, and they feel good about life.

They're living through the generative drive.

And we can't expect...

Makes sense in a sad way that if we're just going to conceive of ourselves as assertion and pleasure machines.

Right.

Then, of course, why would we not try and understand our mental health completely in an eleven hundred page book of numbers?

Right.

It would make sense.

Right.

Except none of it makes sense at all because the overarching concept.

is wrong.

If we have to see ourselves as humans, what is it that we want?

We're driving towards happiness.

We want a sense of peace.

We want contentment when we're considering our own lives, even the things that are negative.

We want a capacity for delight.