Dr. Paul Conti

Yes.

Is it true that it's difficult to find a good job in a good environment?

Yes.

But difficult is 100% different from the lie of saying that it's impossible.

If we recognize that things are difficult, we could say, okay, let's talk about how you could do this difficult thing.

Maybe you could go about it differently than you've been going about it before.

Let's help you do something difficult.

But now that's, that is inspirational.

Come on, you can do it, right?

Let's just figure out how things have not gone the way you want them to.

Let's help you understand yourself and bring routes to change.

We're acknowledging something is difficult and helping a person understand themselves and get to the other side of it, as opposed to this lie of saying, well,

There's no good to be found anyway.

And that I think is really the curse of cynicism.

I think Walter and Fred are role models for all of us, and they give us insight.

What it tells us about, I think, is the seduction that the society we live in brings to us.

And seduction isn't just about romance and sex.

It's anything that promises you something good and gives you something bad.

Right.

So here there's a seduction in the world that's trying to tell Fred and tell Walter, you should feel bad about yourself.