Therapy

“Stranger gives advice on life they don't have to live with no repercussions for actions. Not a great incentive alignment.”

“I think you just have to be careful. You know, you don't want the therapy to, like, turn into victimizing yourself, and then always being in constant, sad, Loops. So I think you have to be careful. And at some points if it feels needed, yes, but I don't think …”

“If you're, like, unhappy, like, I would get healthy, like, before I go to therapy. Like, that's first, biology. I think that fixes a lot, and then you can do other things, but really start with your physical biology.”

“And you probably know if you go back before a hundred years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective. Like it's the whole idea of, I mean, just all of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy and all the things that kind …”

“You're paying for effectively therapy throughout the deal and like general guidance and.”

“There's no amount of therapy. There's no, the only thing that can work you through that is no, well, there's hormones to help, you know, don't, you know, I'm a big, big fan of hormone replacement therapy. I think do whatever it takes to get to great.”

“Therapy is not long-term solution. No clinical psychologist will say that therapy is the long-term solution to problems in life.”

“I think that is largely gone from startup life, and that there are therapists everywhere amongst the My Founder community. There are coaches everywhere And I think, by the way, they are normally distributed like the same group I described earlier, and there ar…”

“It is often better. And this is really controversial for a therapist. You know, you go to your therapist and you're like, is my boyfriend toxic? And the therapist might actually have to say, or to realize internally, it is better that this person remain in thi…”

“That shows that the number one use case of chatbots today has gone from idea generation to companionship and therapy.”

“I think it's better than therapy, because most therapists are female, so having your wife or having your female therapist tell you what to do, I think that's fine, but having a council of peers who can really relate to you and create a safe space for you to be…”

“The more that you're learning about yourself from therapy, the more likely it is to have a beneficial impact for the long term. When somebody just wants to solve your problems, Or give you hacks. Run the other way. That's just not very helpful. And it's certai…”

“And I don't think therapy as it is, it's possible yet to fully replicate with AI. That does not mean that we can build some version of AI therapy that could be helpful for people. It's just not going to be one-to-one the experience you get with a real person.”

“I think a lot of people fall into this trap with therapy and with self-improvement, where they get addicted to the medicine, and it creates too much thoughts about yourself. You know, the happiest people are the ones who are, you know, that are not doing this,…”

“And I have tried therapy before my father got sick in London, and I don't think therapy worked for me for two reasons. Firstly, because I don't think I could completely, honestly express myself to the therapist. Maybe I wasn't someone who I connected with. And…”

“There's a whole body of research that shows, you know, people who've gone through natural bereavement, the loss of a loved one, often feel worse after therapy. They did these controlled studies with You know, a control group who didn't, who lost a loved one, b…”

“Same thing with you know, breast cancer survivors, anxiety about it, depression about it. They did worse if they had gone to therapy and also alienation from a spouse, alienation from parents. All of these are classic iatrogenic effects of therapy, and there's…”

“There's no good study showing preventive mental health works unless you're talking about things like a good life, like connection, you know, doing things for others, getting involved in community, dancing, you know, exercising, eating right.”

“And I think that's one reason that I absolutely love and am passionate about coaching. Because there's an action to it. There's not just digging in a groove of the same story over and over and over again.”

“If you want to build a Riz like GPT wrapper. What I would do is I'd go to non-obvious use cases. Like dating is very obvious. Therapy is very obvious. So the only way right now, like forget, like the, everyone's going after the obvious ones. So like make a lis…”

“I think it is meditation and therapy, and I found those to be more helpful than coaching, but I do think coaching has its place.”

“What they really need is a good therapist. Unfortunately, it makes them, if they get good therapy, it makes them an ineffective founder for their next one because you beat that. That intensity out of them.”

“You start looking at the research, and it's startling because there's nothing that has more than a 50% hit rate. Nothing like none. There's no form of therapy that is successful, like produces positive outcomes more than 50% of the time, which is crazy.”

“Most people don't realize how the founders who they are impressed with actually take advantage of therapy, actually take advantage of medication.”

“Psychedelics were really the only tool that I found that even when it came to therapy and talking with sort of professionals in that regard, you know, there was always a disconnect between, you know, what I was hearing and what I was being shown and my ability…”

“Your friend is, is, is your friend. That is a very cluttered relationship in terms of like how honest they're going to be and why they're going to be honest and their consequences for being honest. And they're, it's obviously deeply informed by their view of t…”

“The way to unpack it, the best way to unpack it is with counsel. Whether that's for athletes in sports psychology and therapy and couples therapy, I think that in sports, it's a great place to analyze how we improve. No one bats an eye at having a shooting coa…”

“What therapy does is, is just kind of like dissipate a lot of that or lower the volume. And gives you perspective that like those mammoths never go away. The goal is to actually just shrink them in size. And that I think helps with fear of one thing or another…”

“My business partner and I are active proponents of therapy. We go to both a psychiatrist and a psychologist. We talk to our team about that. We offer mindfulness sessions when people are feeling really overwhelmed.”

“So I think owning the shadow, whatever it may be, and talking about it with people, starting at least with the people that we feel the most safe with, and then realizing it's totally ok. In fact, it's wonderful, and it gives other people around you permission …”