Scott Barry Kaufman

He's the founder of the ACT approach to psychotherapy, which is a really brilliant form of psychotherapy that allows you to act in line with your values, no matter how you're feeling about the situation in the moment. Maybe you don't feel like it. Maybe you wake up like, I want to lose weight, but I don't feel like going to the gym today.

He's the founder of the ACT approach to psychotherapy, which is a really brilliant form of psychotherapy that allows you to act in line with your values, no matter how you're feeling about the situation in the moment. Maybe you don't feel like it. Maybe you wake up like, I want to lose weight, but I don't feel like going to the gym today.

And you really are able to regulate your emotions in a way where you still...

And you really are able to regulate your emotions in a way where you still...

And you really are able to regulate your emotions in a way where you still...

end up in the gym you know really thinking more about what you want to get out in the long term as opposed to what may be holding you back in the short term so i think the act approach is a really uh a really great way forward right okay i just started the act journal it's the guys from uh is it psychologists off the clock Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

end up in the gym you know really thinking more about what you want to get out in the long term as opposed to what may be holding you back in the short term so i think the act approach is a really uh a really great way forward right okay i just started the act journal it's the guys from uh is it psychologists off the clock Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

end up in the gym you know really thinking more about what you want to get out in the long term as opposed to what may be holding you back in the short term so i think the act approach is a really uh a really great way forward right okay i just started the act journal it's the guys from uh is it psychologists off the clock Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You do follow the main psychology podcast. I wrote this one.

You do follow the main psychology podcast. I wrote this one.

You do follow the main psychology podcast. I wrote this one.

It's pretty cool that you do that. You care about that and that you admit that you do that, but you also do, you are interested in synthesizing. So maybe you're not giving yourself enough credit.

It's pretty cool that you do that. You care about that and that you admit that you do that, but you also do, you are interested in synthesizing. So maybe you're not giving yourself enough credit.

It's pretty cool that you do that. You care about that and that you admit that you do that, but you also do, you are interested in synthesizing. So maybe you're not giving yourself enough credit.

Well, first of all, I wanted to say, you asked me where can people find out if they're in HSP, and I just wanted to say hsperson.com. Lane Aaron has a scale that you can take some self-tests, so I wanted to say that. Cool. This question you asked, I was wondering if you could ask it one more time so I can really fully process it. Safety, feeling a sense of internal safety, is that it?

Well, first of all, I wanted to say, you asked me where can people find out if they're in HSP, and I just wanted to say hsperson.com. Lane Aaron has a scale that you can take some self-tests, so I wanted to say that. Cool. This question you asked, I was wondering if you could ask it one more time so I can really fully process it. Safety, feeling a sense of internal safety, is that it?

Well, first of all, I wanted to say, you asked me where can people find out if they're in HSP, and I just wanted to say hsperson.com. Lane Aaron has a scale that you can take some self-tests, so I wanted to say that. Cool. This question you asked, I was wondering if you could ask it one more time so I can really fully process it. Safety, feeling a sense of internal safety, is that it?

Yeah. Well, I think that in general, we have much deeper reservoirs of resiliency than we realize. And we don't give ourselves the chance to test our resiliency muscles because we're too quick to constantly avoid things that we fear. So first of all, I do think that's very important. I also think that a lot of young people didn't get the memo that you don't have to feel happy all the time.

Yeah. Well, I think that in general, we have much deeper reservoirs of resiliency than we realize. And we don't give ourselves the chance to test our resiliency muscles because we're too quick to constantly avoid things that we fear. So first of all, I do think that's very important. I also think that a lot of young people didn't get the memo that you don't have to feel happy all the time.

Yeah. Well, I think that in general, we have much deeper reservoirs of resiliency than we realize. And we don't give ourselves the chance to test our resiliency muscles because we're too quick to constantly avoid things that we fear. So first of all, I do think that's very important. I also think that a lot of young people didn't get the memo that you don't have to feel happy all the time.