Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

And not very useful.

And look, the truth is, it's both, right?

It's like nothing's black or white.

Should we be trying to improve the quality of living and lifestyles for everyone?

Yeah.

Of course we should.

But actually, no matter how bad your situation is, it always helps to have a better personal agency, a belief that actually I can do something to influence the outcome.

Right.

Yeah, just to sort of finish off that point, a really simple example is, okay, let's say an individual has got a stressful job and they don't like the way their colleagues and their boss speaks to them and they hate the job.

But they do it because it's the only job they can get, right?

If...

I can teach them a breathing exercise that helps them lower stress because it does.

There are many breathing exercises that we know physiologically will lower your stress levels and change the tone of your nervous system.

If I teach that individual that, it doesn't change the fact that the boss

is not very nice to them, or they don't wanna be in that job, but it changes their perception of that.

It changes their possibility when the boss says that instead of getting triggered, they can be a bit calmer.

They can look at it differently.

They can look at options.

That's right.

Now, honestly, you take your time writing these books, but this is just a wonderful book.