Gail Saltz
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209 appearances
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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You wanna spend maybe 20% of your time working on a relative weakness, but you really wanna spend about 80% of your time working on a relative strength, because that is where a child is going to get their identity, to feel good about themselves, and to be able to do something, even as something else might be hard, but to be able to do something where they can invest themselves and fly.
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me.
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This book has been definitely percolating in my mind for many years, fueled by the
a combination of things.
One is that I have felt for a very long time that we have a very unidimensional way of looking at mental health issues, informed greatly by stigma, that there's sort of this very negative, negative view of being different in any way from others.
And while mental health issues can definitely cause suffering, and I'm in the business of treating that,
and I think people should get treatment, and I don't want to minimize the suffering, it is really clearly more complex than that.
As I have seen in many years of practice where I treat many actually very high functioning people who are really successful, but are suffering nonetheless, obviously the reason they come to see me.
And I was really struck by how many people
found ways to use a very particular strength that was associated very much so with the issue that they were struggling with.
So that became apparent to me during practice.
Then I started hosting a series at the 92nd Street Y called Psychobiography, where we explore what made someone tick, but that subject was, or is, I should say it's ongoing, a person who has been
highly successful, really, at a genius level, in terms of changing our world in the arts or in the sciences or in history, and found that pretty much anybody I chose that sort of uniformly is recognized at that level, had a mental health issue.
So I was really struck by that.
And I've always been fascinated with the subject of genius and
extraordinary creativity and achievement, probably somewhat informed by having grown up with a brother who actually won the Nobel Prize at age 41, which is one of the youngest people.
He's an astrophysicist.
And, you know, I've always been very fascinated by the way he thinks and his creativity and his curiosity and sort of what goes into making someone like that.
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