“The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A bett...” — Martin Seligman Quote

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

Authentic items almost always have attention to detail that make them insanely durable. They never fail to hold up against the test of time.

It's really great to just live your authentic truth.

I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. I would cover a lot of Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood, that kind of stuff, and it just feels very authentic to me. It's always been there through the years. Even when I was in my band, I still listened to country.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.