Paul Conti

And as a corollary to that, we don't do nearly enough to educate children.

And we said, I want to write a book.

Second book I write is going to be everything I needed to know about life, I learned as a second year postgraduate psychiatry resident.

Why?

You know, why then did I learn so much about unconscious motivation, about the impact of trauma, about how we can be envious and how we can act out, you know, even about how our emotions trump logic in us.

Like, why don't we teach these things when we're young enough to understand?

Like, why is that other kid bullying me?

Or why, just because I'm a little bit bigger, do I want to go thump that other kid on the head?

What's going on?

We don't do those things.

We're tripping ahead of ourselves and we don't stop and think, how are we using our resources?

How are we shepherding forward the next generation?

Which, by the way, is a generation that's going to determine our fates too as we get older.

Yeah.

We don't, you know, do that.

I often think of like in the Olympics, you know, you see like the great sprinters, right?

And they've got to come out of the blocks perfectly, right?

So if they come out of the blocks a little bit too fast, they're going to fall over, right?

They're going to just fall forward.

And I often see that in my head about us as, you know, as humans and as a culture that we're rushing so far forward, we don't stop and say, wait, let's keep the basics here.