A speaker rejects therapy's goal of normality, arguing it should aim for excellence instead. They combined behavioral psychology and cognitive therapy techniques to treat anxiety like unplugging constant background noise, then wanted to share these methods so others could move beyond normal toward high performance.
And the contrast with the traditional therapy is therapy for many years either looks at you like you're normal or abnormal, right? It doesn't look at like, let's create, let's take a normal person and help them have an excellent life, which is what really we should go to therapy for. But it's always like just trying to achieve normal is the goal. And I'm like, I don't want to be normal. I want to excel. I want to be excellent. Yeah. That's a good point. And so that's, That's when I started discovering these tools and it's a combination of behavioral psychology and cognitive therapy, but they're tools that get right to the point. They get to the root. And I was able to turn off anxiety for the first time in my life. And all of a sudden it's like you had, imagine you had stereos playing your whole life and all of a sudden they unplugged them. Yeah. And it's a different world. It's a different, I was like, it opened up and I was like, wait a second, this is how everyone feels like this is amazing. And when I learned how to turn it off, I was like, I have to share this with people.
