Dr. Paul Conti

We let ourselves be human, including all the trials and tribulations and failures and everything else that comes along with being human.

Then we meet the world with a sense of active gratitude.

Now we're engaged in the world with agency and gratitude, and they're grounded in good, real, healthy places.

And it's a pond that we can keep our drives in balance.

And keeping our drives in balance where we're governed by the generative drive helps those foundational pillars stay healthy, right?

And now it helps us find that happiness that we're looking for, the peace, contentment, and delight.

And that helps keep the system all in check.

So you can see how we can have an upcycle of goodness where the foundational pillars are in check and the things that ride on top of it are in a good place and we're governed by our generative drive.

So our assertion and pleasure drives are in balance.

And I've seen over a quarter century of being a physician, this is what health looks like, right?

When people are mentally healthy and it doesn't mean that it's perfect, right?

If we're alive, we all have our issues, right?

Okay, that's part of being alive.

we can meet the world from a place of good mental health and then we're ready if difficult things come our way and difficult things will always come our way and we're also ready if they don't and when they don't we're ready to get the most and the best out of life it is this

that we want and you're mentioning thoreau and james and we can go back farther we can go back to shakespeare and cervantes were writing about this several hundred years ago and we can go back to mythology and we can go back to folklore traditions around the world we're like this is what we feel as humans we're aware of the generative drive in us we're aware of the purpose that we want to feel but we haven't taken that knowledge which is historical human knowledge

and integrated it to our conception of mental health right now and then we end up with this giant book with 1100 pages of diagnoses and then you end up going to a system that wants to help you and at some point you realize i'm just a jumble of numbers that i don't understand

And when I go look at those numbers, I certainly don't feel understood.

And that's not, we have to bring ourselves current.

We owe it to ourselves to take everything we know as humans that have species that survived across all this time and to put it together and say, hey, let's use what we know to take care of ourselves.

And yes, of course, it's about us, right?