Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

The neurologist, Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan, she came on the show maybe a year ago or so.

And she writes a whole book on this topic of, you know, the age of diagnosis in which we're living.

But Suzanne asks the question, or Suzanne thinks one way we can look at this is to ask ourselves, is the diagnosis helping me?

I think it's beautifully simple.

It might be that actually you've spent 10 years struggling with your health, not knowing what you have, and then finally someone gives you a diagnosis and that feels, you know, I knew it.

I knew I had something.

You know, it feels very reassuring, you know, and it may help you access certain treatments.

And also beware because certain diagnoses can become a new prison for you to live in.

And you see everything in the world through that belief.

Lies can become reality.

You write about Serena Williams and it's a beautiful story, which really speaks to the power of beliefs and expectation

But I guess it's a story that's worthwhile us going through because some could interpret it as, you know, fake it until you make it, right?

So tell the story, Serena, and then let's just unpick what we can learn from it.

Can I just pause you there just for a minute?

So it's basically that she was going through a bit of a rough patch.

She believed that she wasn't rushing the net.

Right.

Patrick, her coach, also saw that she wasn't rushing the net.

Right.

But Patrick told her that the statistics say that you are rushing the net and you're doing well when you do.