Dr. Paul Conti

Hey, let's go do that because here's the good news.

There are mechanisms of understanding.

We can understand.

the structure of self, the function of self, how our drives are balanced, and we can make change.

That is the sea change that I'm really advocating for because I think it's there in front of us and we know enough to do it.

I like to think that there's some things in the book where there's some things that are original, I hope, right?

But by and large, what I'm doing is taking what we know

Through years of human experience in psychology, in literature, in philosophy, in our understanding of history and sociology, in modern neuroscience, in modern psychiatry, there's so much that we know that when we pull all this together, I think this is what we get.

I'm not making it up in the sense that I'm just seeing it.

This is in front of us.

We know enough to put this out there and say, maybe we should adhere to this.

Because this is how we really take control of our lives, by taking control of our mental health.

I think yes, in the sense that we have these two foundational pillars and one is our structure of self and the other is our function of self.

And upon those pillars, if we have health in those foundational pillars and we go and look and we see what isn't healthy,

Okay, let me go change that.

What is healthy?

Let me make that stronger.

Then we end up with these really good things.

We end up with a sense of empowerment inside that lets us meet the world with agency.

We end up with a sense of humility inside.