Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

And she came to the UK in, I think, 1972.

And, you know, I don't want to generalize, but Indian moms can be quite direct, okay?

And this really does speak to this, to the kind of underlying thesis in your book, I think, about beliefs and we're not seeing reality, right?

We're creating reality through our beliefs.

So I remember so clearly coming back from university, I don't know, first year or second year, you know, I'd gone away, I was eating too much, I was drinking too much, you know, I was first time away from home.

And I think at one point mum said in some version of,

you're fat, what are you doing?

Yeah.

Now, depending on your life experience, you will interpret that

potentially differently from how I interpreted it.

I never mind it, right?

Because I've grown up with mum and I like the fact that she's direct and she was right.

And actually her saying that to me helped me realize, you know what, mum's right actually.

I should probably, she didn't tell me what to do.

I just thought,

Yeah, I probably let myself go a little bit.

I can be a bit more careful or whatever it might be.

Now, when I put that out on Instagram, oh my God, for some people, they're like, that's abusive.

And I was wondering, because obviously I don't particularly want negative comments about my mom, right?

But it speaks to this idea that people are locked in to their beliefs about the world, right?