John Miles

But I've always wanted to have you on the show and you are someone my listeners frequently request.

So it is such a profound honor to have you here today.

Today, we are gonna be discussing this brand new book.

For those who can't see what I'm holding up, it's titled, What's Going Right?

A Powerful New Method for Optimizing Your Mental Health.

And Paul was kind enough to send me an arc of this, which is one of the advantages of being a podcaster.

And I have to say, I really loved the book, Paul.

I came away feeling that it isn't really in totality a book about mental illness.

It's a book about cultivating the architecture

of what I see as a healthy generative self.

And that is what really like I took away when I was finished with it.

Is that your intention for how you wrote it?

I want to start off in the introduction of your book.

You write that we've been conditioned to see mental health is almost like a switch.

And this resonated with me because that's oftentimes how we've learned to approach it.

Either we're broken or we're not.

But you describe it in reality as a spectrum.

So let me start there.

What do you think the biggest mistake we've made in mental health is about how we treat it

but instead how we define it?