The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“I think at the time, and maybe still to this day, I thought of sadness as being not a good emotion to have.”
“I now kind of like the idea of like if I if I feel sad, it would be nice to actually experience that”
“you you you only experience an emotion for like 45 seconds and then to experience it for longer requires you to reinforce the story you're…”
“There's never a non-emotional experience that you're having.”
“I don't want to reify the story as true. All the stories are false.”
“And so if you believe in a story, it can also stagnate an emotional experience.”
“the very first thing you said was the kernel. Always almost always is is the kernel of what is being worked on.”
“it's not me doing it to you, but yeah, it's it's me following you.”
“from like high school, I knew I wanted to get to med school. Med school itself is a conveyor belt.”
“one of the things that has changed is the fact that like there's no conveyor belt system here”
“Typically, I notice that as a public figure, people want to be to be able to connect with you.”
“your connection your connection with yourself is a big component in that recipe”
“if you take a kid who's physically abused and you put a quarter in one hand and a key in another hand without them seeing…”
“If something is too painful, it cuts off.”
“what I mean by emotional abuse is that somebody held you responsible for their emotional state or somebody told you the emotions that you were…”
“don't be so excited, Johnny. Don't cry, Johnny.”
“the way I first would start to learn that I was in fear is that I had binary thinking”
“the thing about emotions is that they do affect your muscles.”
“any emotion that we might have, any emotion that we withhold requires us to constrict our muscles in a particular way.”
“we found out yesterday that we actually hit the New York Times bestseller list, which had been a goal for a very long time”
“It feels like I've been building up for the last 3 years for this big sneeze.”
“I had this big crush on this girl in my first year of med school, and then she left the university for various reasons, and…”
“somewhere in in your college experience, you made the choice to have success over connection.”
“I feel like I have this constant sense of there is more that needs to be done.”
“I could never let my mom see me playing video games because if she did, there was always something else to do.”
“What would celebrating your win look like having just hit the New York Times bestseller?”
“It would look like firstly sending thank you messages and gifts to everyone who's helped along the way.”
“At the end of 2 years, would you be further ahead or farther behind?”
“That's how important the emotions are to your productivity.”