What Paul Conti has said about Behavior change and agency
3 quotes · 1 episode · May 4, 2026
Paul Conti, Psychiatrist quoted on psilocybin and the unconscious mind, has been quoted on Behavior change and agency 3 times in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on May 4, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Conti reports that in intensive treatment, patients often realize by the second day that much of what they do is habit rather than choice.
“by midway through the second day of an intensive process, the person wants to revisit almost everything”
Huberman Lab: Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 55:25
Conti prefers collaboratively arrived-at goals over directives and emphasizes that small wins build toward larger change.
“small wins empower and embolden us to grow. to take a little bit more chances and get bigger wins”
Huberman Lab: Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:05:24
Conti holds that although people get in their own way, they are not their own enemy, and there is always a reason behind self-obstruction.
“here the magic realization is that there is no enemy. That we can get in our own way”
Huberman Lab: Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:19:53
Episodes
Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul ContiHuberman Lab · May 4, 2026 · 2 h 10 min
Andrew Huberman and psychiatrist Paul Conti discuss self-reflection, agency, behavior change, trauma, intrusive thoughts, and happiness, drawing on Conti's book What's Going Right?
Paul Conti on other topics
- Self-reflection and introspection · 2 quotes
- What's Going Right? (book) · 2 quotes
- Happiness · 1 quote
- Good and evil in religion · 1 quote
- Negativity bias · 1 quote
- Childhood trauma · 1 quote
- Intrusive thoughts · 1 quote
- Self-talk · 1 quote