Gabor Maté
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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
c/gabor-mate
Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…you can be banned. And worse, I wonder what happens to a society that treats empathy like a threat, like a weakness, as Elon Musk famously said recently, right? What role do we play? people who are ordinary, for lack of a better word, or just your…
…in charge? Who's in control? I don't trust the people with the money. I don't trust the people with the power. Look at Elon Musk and his drug use and his paranoia. These people have no relationship to the real world. And I'm very worried about what…
…sense is a fact of the trauma of the tech leaders. They are publicly talking about using LCD, using ketamines. I mean, Elon Musk, Sam Altman. Don't you think that they are fighting with their own traumas that determine all development today? Well, if you…
…today? Well, if you look at many of these guys in tech, they're very nervous people. They're very troubled people. Look at Elon Musk and his drug use and his paranoia. And a lot of these guys are worried about dying. They want to extend their…
…the large decisions are made far away by people you don't even know, but they affect your life. You know, like some corporate, Elon Musk decides to fire half the people that worked for Twitter, which he did his first day on the job. Well, what do those…
…a fixation. Suicidal empathy is a concept which has been amplified by many notable and opinionated public figures, including Elon Musk, Mark Anderson, and Bill Ackman. Loosely speaking, it's the idea that misdirected compassion and moral virtue leads to…
…much empathy, if it hyperfires in the wrong situations toward the wrong targets, you end up with suicidal empathy. So Elon Musk has endorsed your book. He said, Western civilization is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and…
…this well. All Gad's books, including this one, are great. All your books, including this one, are great. So a big fan of Elon Musk. Many people at the same time have viewed Elon's feed on his own ex-platform in the last couple of years as being an…
…anybody else. The British are no better or worse than anybody else. It's all a matter of historical circumstance. We've just seen Elon Musk become the first ever trillionaire in the history of planet Earth. He's on the record as saying that empathy is a…
…ever trillionaire in the history of planet Earth. He's on the record as saying that empathy is a weakness. You've often discussed Musk as a kind of prime example of unresolved childhood trauma. And the question I've got for you about that is, Can it…
…the way parents are taught to raise their kids, the way kids are schooled. Look, there was a... Last week, two weeks ago, Elon Musk acquired Twitter. First thing he did was fire 7,500 people, just like that. There was a report in the British Guardian a…
…leader, or a lot of these leaders, they're presenting themselves as tough and strong and smarter than other people. I don't know Elon Musk, I've never met Elon Musk, but there's an air about them as if they're the smart ones and the intelligent ones, and…
…leaders, they're presenting themselves as tough and strong and smarter than other people. I don't know Elon Musk, I've never met Elon Musk, but there's an air about them as if they're the smart ones and the intelligent ones, and admitting that they're…
…it work both ways? I mean, does a childhood trauma of any kind, can it propel you to overachievement, as we've seen with Musk with his businesses, whilst at the same time, you know, he often shows another side to himself, which is more problematic? Well,…
…first trillionaire would endorse a book that speaks against empathy, you know. But look, yeah, I mean, I don't have to look at Elon Musk. I can look at myself. I used to be a workaholic doctor. I was a very successful physician. I worked all the time,…
…of living. That would have been true. But there was a hidden dynamic I didn't recognize, which I see in Trump and I see it in Musk and I see it in so many other people, which is the need to feel important. Now, the need to feel important and to be…
…and recognized is essential need of the human child. The message I got from the world, and I'm sure that's the message that Musk got from the world as well, is that you're not wanted, you're not important. And if that's the message that you unconsciously…
…we only are thinking up here, cut off from the heart and cut off from the gut, we're genius-level reptiles. And that's what Musk is. He's a genius-level reptile. And that's because of his childhood trauma, I'm sure. Right. Yeah, I think you may well be…