Dr. Paul Conti

We may have a slightly lower capacity for a generative drive, but that's okay too.

If I can get up and lead a good life today and be good to myself and good to others and do something good in the world around me for other people, that's a reason to feel like this has been a successful day.

We don't all have to have a generative drive that's running at the highest end of the range.

But what we want to do is cultivate as much as we can in each of us.

It's not like the assertion and the pleasure drives where too much is not good.

Too little is not too good.

The generative drive, more is always better.

Too much is never enough, right?

Because there's a drive towards goodness, right?

It's a drive towards social harmony.

It's a drive towards giving to other people, which always leads us to give back to ourselves as well.

More of that is always better because it's sort of the goodness in our lives, right?

which feeds in a good way into absolutely everything else.

Yeah, yeah.

I often say selling yourself short or not saying you're great at what you're great at is not humility.

Well, it's either ego or falseness, right?

If a person says, well, I'm not really very good at that, why?

It's not egotistical to say, yes, I am great at that.

Recently talking with a person who's a professional athlete, right?

Who says, you know, I'm pretty good at this.