What Paul Conti has said about What's Going Right? (book)
2 quotes · 1 episode · May 4, 2026
Paul Conti, Psychiatrist quoted on psilocybin and the unconscious mind, has been quoted on What's Going Right? (book) 2 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 argues that starting self-examination from what is going right reflects reality, not just comfort, whereas the mental health system focuses on what is wrong.
“think to start off with what's going right, it's not just a way of looking at it because it feels better, but it's consistent with truth”
Huberman Lab: Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 5:10
Conti contends the mental health system encourages labels that can make people feel more helpless.
“to put labels on ourselves that often just make us feel worse or make us feel more helpless or hopeless in understanding”
Huberman Lab: Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 5:43
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
- Behavior change and agency · 3 quotes
- Self-reflection and introspection · 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