Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia

Everyone's focused on changing behavior. Everyone's focused on increasing willpower to overcome this tendency. And it's like, why not just change the tendency? That sounds so simple, but that's literally what we do in psychotherapy every day. When we come in and someone has a narcissistic personality disorder, this is personality.

This is who they are. And we can psychotherapize them to be someone else for their natural thoughts. to change, for the way that they see the world to change, for their behaviors to change on its own. It doesn't require willpower is necessary when you are trying to not be narcissistic. It is not necessary when you are no longer narcissistic.

So we've done it in psychotherapy. We know that if your self-esteem changes, if your sense of being changes, treatment refractory depression will change. Trauma, PTSD will change. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

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