Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged, another fun week of interacting with so many people across the globe.

Really appreciate all the positive feedback and continue to reach out to me. I'll give you all the contact information of how to get a hold of me.

But really glad that from a lot of the comments that this program is making an impact in people's lives,

which is really one of the driving forces behind starting this podcast.

So, as you guys know, today I was going to have a guest on, but he's actually in Ireland, and I'm trying to have him on next week.

His name is Vivian James Rigney, and he wrote a great book called Naked at the Knife Edge, and he climbed all the seven highest peaks of the world, including Mount Everest being the last, and he's going to

speak a lot on vulnerability and leadership. He does a lot of work with executives, so it didn't

work out today, so we'll try and have Mon to the next week or so, but it's an amazing book,

and my conversation with him today, was just a really bad connection, was um i think it's going to be a really

good episode uh so today's topic as you guys know how i do this program i do it organically

um julie's in the background chopping uh which seems to be the status quo for what, how we, how we do this

program. But I want to talk today about, uh, self responsibility. In mental health, I, I think I

found that a lot of people, um, if you go back to the episode I did, one of the first

one I did about locus of control and attribution theory.

In attribution theory, when we succeed, we attribute it to our own personal strengths, our own personal accomplishments.

And when we fail, we attributed to external factors.

The test, the teacher was a jerk.

The cop, you know, wasn't nice, didn't need to pull me over.

And then kind of the flip with that is when other people succeed, we attribute that to, well, they just got lucky.

And when they fail, we attributed to, well, well they deserved it so in terms of like

self-responsibility if if is is we really are the architects and the owners of the lives that

we are trying to live and when mental health kind of creeps in it it it it

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