Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti

Huberman Lab

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Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 30.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Dr. Paul Conti, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and an expert in how to improve mental health and increase your sense of agency and wellbeing. He is also an expert in trauma treatment. We discuss practical tools you can use to gain insight into your natural strengths and to make better life choices on your own behalf. We explore how these tools can help overcome low motivation, intrusive thoughts and self-destructive bad habits. We also discuss how to balance internal reflection and external action to ensure you move your life forward in the right directions. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman Rorra: https://rorra.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Paul Conti (00:02:51) Self View; Tool: What's Going Right?; State Dependence (00:10:03) Sponsors: Helix Sleep & BetterHelp (00:12:44) Tool: Compassionate Curiosity; Falseness; Social Media (00:21:00) Doing vs Thinking; Self-Reflection (00:29:55) External vs Internal Processing, Balance (00:40:42) Sponsor: AG1 (00:42:26) Quiet vs Verbal; Questions to Learn About Self (00:53:17) Examined Life & Reflection; Changing Unwanted Behavior (01:02:54) Making Positive Changes, Problem Solving (01:07:26) Sponsor: Function (01:09:03) Behavior Pattern Insight & Reclaiming Agency (01:17:06) Agency & Control; Getting in Your Own Way (01:22:49) Trauma, Living Intentionally; Internal Turmoil (01:29:08) Intrusive Thoughts, Tool: Self Talk Awareness; Dreams (01:34:10) Sponsor: Rorra (01:35:23) Trauma & Emotions; Healing Childhood Trauma (01:43:32) Photographs, Positive Climate for the Mind; Spirituality, Good & Evil (01:52:53) Happiness & Expectations; Death, Living a Good Life (02:03:10) Book Writing; Acknowledgements (02:07:25) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's far more going right in any of us, in all of us, than there is going wrong if we're here, right?
0:06.3	And if we're listening to educational material, we want to better ourselves, there's so much more that's going right in us.
0:13.2	And it's a good place for us to start because it helps us to be able to look at what's not going the way we want it to be, where we want to bring change
0:21.4	in our lives, but we should start from a position of strength.
0:24.8	Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday
0:30.3	life.
0:31.3	I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
0:40.6	My guest today is Dr. Paul Conti.
0:43.2	Dr. Paul Conti is a medical doctor and psychiatrist and an expert in recovery from trauma.
0:48.1	He is also one of the foremost public educators on how anyone can build a greater sense of agency,
0:53.8	confidence, and well-being
0:55.0	in their life.
0:56.0	Today we discuss the practical aspects of building and maintaining mental health.
1:00.0	In particular, how to identify your natural strengths and the often unseen opportunities
1:05.0	to improve your reflexive mental framework and relationship with self and others.
1:10.0	Dr. Conti's approach to building
1:11.6	mental health and overcoming challenges with mental health are very different than most
1:15.7	of the information that you'll find on the internet and elsewhere. He has decades of clinical
1:19.9	experience and he draws on that end data to explain the specific questions that we all need
1:24.6	to ask ourselves when we're facing things like lowered motivation, mood, or challenges overcoming bad habits. Today we discuss all of that as well as how
1:32.8	to balance action and introspection. And this is very important because I think a lot of people
1:37.1	think about mental health as merely an introspective process. But as Dr. Conti points out, it's
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