Know Thyself

André Duqum

Know Thyself is a community supporting you to KNOW the true nature of yourself and the world around you, THRIVE in your health, wealth, and relationships – ultimately empowering you to CREATE and share your true self with the world. Each week André Duqum interviews experts in their field; ranging from spiritual educators to cutting edge scientists, heart-led creatives & more on topics such as the true nature of ‘Self’, “what is reality?,” and exploring the fundamental pillars we all need to unlock our fullest potential. Contributing to birthing a more beautiful world, one episode at a time.

  1. E200 - Ido Portal: The Body Knows What the Mind Can't

    vor 8 Std.

    E200 - Ido Portal: The Body Knows What the Mind Can't

    Ido Portal is one of the most original movement thinkers alive. He has spent decades studying the body across martial arts, acrobatics, yoga, dance, and ancient movement traditions, not to master any one of them, but to ask a deeper question: what does it actually mean to move well, and what does the body reveal when you finally start listening to it? In this conversation, we go long, covering ground that most movement conversations never reach. What We Dive Into: 1.Most of us treat the body like a car to maintain, something we service occasionally for performance or appearance. Ido's entire framework starts from the opposite premise: the body is not a tool you use, it is what you are. That shift alone changes what practice means. 2.What we attend to grows. What we neglect crumbles. Ido applies this principle everywhere, from babies in hospitals to athletes on the field. Bringing undivided attention to even one part of your body for one minute, with no music, no phone, no audience, begins a transformation most people have never experienced. 3.The most important moment in Ido's own journey was admitting he didn't have what he was looking for. Not as defeat, but as a beginning. The person who thinks they already have a connection to their body is the one most closed off to finding it. Not knowing, and staying there, is the actual practice. Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself. https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com ✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself Try LMNT & get a free sample pack https://www.functionhealth.com/KNOWTHYSELF Code KNOWTHYSELF25 for $25 off membership ___________ 00:00 Intro 01:44 How Most People Relate to Their Body 09:22 Movement vs. Practice vs. Exercise 10:27 Life Is for Practicing, Not Just Living 20:13 Attention as the Primary Tool 23:49 Stop Practicing for Exposure 28:12 How to Begin: Removing Leakage 35:22 Diagnostic Play and the Art of Seeing 37:30 The Ancient Schools of Practice 43:33 Tensegrity and the Body's Inner Models 49:28 Proprioception, Sensing, and the Pain of Feeling 1:02:05 Tension, Connection, and What the Body Actually Needs 1:08:00 Ido's Journey: Searching for a Real Teacher 1:13:15 Why Real Teachers Refuse to Give Clean Answers 1:23:49 What Am I Before Who Am I 1:29:23 The Chariot Analogy: Body, Emotion, and Intellect 1:36:42 Feeding the Emotional Body 1:40:14 The Weber-Fechner Law and Reducing Inner Noise 1:52:29 How the Body Reveals What We Hide 2:02:15 Pursuing Weakness Over Strength 2:05:46 Discipline, Motivation, and Real Will 2:16:02 The Practice of Sitting and Choiceless Awareness 2:37:22 What Inner Work Without the Body Misses 2:41:31 The Heart as the Missing Path 2:45:55 Community Questions: Practical Tools for the Body 2:57:18 On Animals, Archetypes, and the Spirit of Movement 3:03:02 Closing Message: Become a Practice ___________ ✨MORE FROM IDO ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portal.ido/↳https://www.idoportal.com 📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF ↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l ↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ ↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum ↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ ↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ 👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum ↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast ↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list/book-list

    3 Std. 6 Min.
  2. E199 - Dr. Caroline Leaf: How to Stop Your Brain From Holding You Back

    16. Juni

    E199 - Dr. Caroline Leaf: How to Stop Your Brain From Holding You Back

    Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist and bestselling author who has spent over 40 years studying the relationship between the mind and the brain. At a time when neuroplasticity was still emerging as a field, she was already building clinical tools to help patients recover from brain injuries, trauma, and conditions that conventional medicine had written off as permanent. In this conversation, we go deep into a distinction that changes everything: the mind is not the brain, and once you understand that, you stop being a victim of your own biology. What We Dive Into: 1. The brain does not generate thoughts. It responds to the mind. Everything you think, feel, and choose originates in the mind and then gets coded into the brain and body. 2. Depression, anxiety, and other mental health labels are not diseases you have. They are signals pointing to an underlying thought that needs to be found and restructured. 3. You cannot change what happened, but you can change the impact it has on your present and future. Through a process of deconstructing and reconstructing toxic thought networks, the grip of the past loosens. Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself. https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com ✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://www.bioptimizers.com/knowthyself Use code KNOWTHYSELF to save 15% at checkout ___________ 00:00 Intro 03:11 The Difference Between Mind and Brain 07:17 Why the Brain-Is-Boss Model Gets It Wrong 12:25 Consciousness Beyond the Physical Body 14:25 Quantum Physics, Microtubules, and the Mind 21:24 Science and Spirituality Converging 23:41 Early Research: Neuroplasticity and Traumatic Brain Injury 28:50 Mind-Driven Change: Telomeres and Cellular Health 31:56 Working in South Africa: Healing Through Mental Frameworks 34:31 The Origin of the Neurocycle 40:13 The Non-Conscious, Subconscious, and Conscious Mind 49:35 How Thoughts and Memories Build Into the Brain and Body 51:59 The Five Steps of the Neurocycle 57:01 Step One: Gather Awareness 01:00:24 Step Two: Reflect 01:02:10 Steps Three to Five: Mindstorm, Recheck, Active Reach 01:09:28 Community Questions: Fear of Losing Your Identity 01:14:32 Working Through Shame, Grief, and Emotional Signals 01:15:46 Retroactive Causation: Changing the Past Through the Present 01:19:28 Intelligent Design, Choice, and the Source Behind Life 01:22:45 Mindsets, Patterns, and Teaching Children 01:25:58 Stress as Intelligence: The New Book ___________ ✨MORE FROM DR. LEAF ↳Website (for books, courses, 1:1 coaching): https://drleaf.com/ ↳Neurocycle app: https://drleaf.com/neurocycle-app ↳Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-leaf-show/id1334767397 ↳Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DrCarolineLeaf ↳Neurocycle Certification: https://drleaf.com/certified-strategist 📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF ↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l ↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ ↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum ↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ ↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ 👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum ↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast ↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

    1 Std. 30 Min.
  3. E198 - Dr. Todd Rose: Why Your Desires Aren't Actually Yours (Here's Who Planted Them)

    9. Juni

    E198 - Dr. Todd Rose: Why Your Desires Aren't Actually Yours (Here's Who Planted Them)

    Join our online community ↓ https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com Todd Rose is a Harvard-trained social scientist, former high school dropout with a 0.9 GPA, and co-founder of the think tank Populace. His research centers on the gap between what people privately believe and what they publicly say, and the profound consequences of that gap for individuals and for society. This is one of those conversations that reframes something you thought you understood and doesn't let you go back. What We Dive Into: 1. Your brain estimates group consensus using a simple shortcut: the loudest voices repeated most often. On social media, that is 10% of users creating 80% of content. 2. Belonging means being accepted for who you actually are. Fitting in means changing who you are to be accepted. 3. Authenticity is not about being perfectly accurate about who you are. It is about making choices you genuinely believe align with who you are right now. ✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyself Use code KNOWTHYSELF for up to 43% off sitewide https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself Try LMNT & get a free sample pack ___________ 00:00 Intro 01:27 What Are Collective Illusions? 02:05 The Cost of Self-Silencing 05:06 How We're Hardwired to Conform 07:40 Why the Brain Is Easily Fooled About Group Consensus 09:13 Social Media and the Amplification of Fringe Views 13:20 What Americans Actually Want in Private 21:01 Who Profits from Keeping Us Divided 23:52 Foreign Manipulation and AI Bot Farms 29:37 The Most Consequential Collective Illusions 36:38 What Authenticity Actually Means 41:15 The Coming Age of Courage 42:14 Belonging vs. Fitting In 49:44 René Girard and Mimetic Desire 59:43 How Collective Illusions Can Shatter Overnight 1:05:58 The Velvet Revolution and the Power of Authenticity 1:12:09 How to Build the Muscle of Living in Truth 1:20:25 Todd's Personal Collective Illusion: Faith and Identity 1:24:34 Spiritual Exploration and Holding Beliefs Lightly 1:32:23 Certainty and Knowledge Are Inversely Correlated 1:41:42 Fulfillment Over Achievement 1:50:31 Small Actions That Raise Collective Consciousness ___________ ✨MORE FROM TODD ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ltoddrose/ ↳Populace: https://populace.org ↳https://www.toddrose.com/ 📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF ↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l ↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ ↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum ↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ ↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ 👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum ↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast ↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

    1 Std. 57 Min.
  4. E197 - 9 Great Thinkers on the Inner Work That Frees You

    2. Juni

    E197 - 9 Great Thinkers on the Inner Work That Frees You

    Join our online community ↓ https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com This is a compilation episode, and it draws from some of the most honest and clarifying moments across recent conversations on the show. Nine different voices, each approaching the same territory from a different angle: what it means to stop being ruled by the outside world, to understand the patterns we inherited, and to come back to something more real inside ourselves. What We Dive Into: ​ Thoughts arise whether you choose them or not. The shift is learning to observe them rather than be pulled by them.​ The nervous system learns what safety feels like early, and it keeps returning to that baseline even when it no longer serves.​ Your body, your beliefs, your identity, all of it was accumulated over time. Setting it aside, even briefly, creates the space to touch something underneath that is more stable. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://www.bioptimizers.com/knowthyself Use code KNOWTHYSELF to save 15% at checkout https://www.basedbodyworks.com Code KNOWTHYSELF25 for 20% off + free toiletry bag! ___________ 00:00 Intro 02:12 Shi Heng Yi: Master Yourself, Not the World 11:10 Dr. Sue Morter: The Hidden Truth Behind Your Triggers 19:04 Emily McDonald: Living from Feeling States, Not Outcomes 24:58 Joe Hudson: This is Your Sign To Be More Vulnerable 31:53 Sadhguru: How To Make True Impact 48:20 Henry Shukman: Tasting Awakening for Yourself 1:00:29 Nicole LePera: Your Childhood Beliefs Might Be Holding You Back 1:13:19 Lucy Hale: Remember To Accept Your Own Timeline 1:17:23 Wim Hof: It's Time for Love ___________ MORE FROM OUR SPEAKERS ✨Shi Heng Yi: https://youtu.be/Yg_vu7MelmU ✨Dr. Sue Morter: https://youtu.be/NAdU39m1Oxo ✨Emily McDonald: https://youtu.be/BS80CB3fgS8 ✨Joe Hudson: https://youtu.be/vF4R9uDje0E ✨Sadhguru: https://youtu.be/FMoXXb-wKE8 ✨Henry Shukman: https://youtu.be/ZMk3ztb66mc ✨Nicole LePera: https://youtu.be/BlpyzG5vV_o ✨Lucy Hale: https://youtu.be/MkNjs5vbG9M ✨Wim Hof: https://youtu.be/yjKoAXOFNqw MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF ✨https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com 🎙️Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l 🎧Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ 🎬TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum 👥Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ 🌐https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ MORE FROM ANDRÉ ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum 💼Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast 📚Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

    1 Std. 22 Min.
  5. E196 - Dr. Vasant Lad: The Doctor From India: The Forgotten 5,000-Year-Old Science of the Human Body (Ayurveda

    26. Mai

    E196 - Dr. Vasant Lad: The Doctor From India: The Forgotten 5,000-Year-Old Science of the Human Body (Ayurveda

    Dr. Vasant Lad is the founder of the Ayurvedic Institute and the man most responsible for bringing Ayurveda to the West. He has spent over 40 years teaching this 5,000-year-old science of life to practitioners across the world, and in this conversation, we sat down together at SoHum Mountain Healing Center in Asheville, North Carolina, where I had just completed a week-long Panchakarma. What unfolded was one of the most quietly profound conversations I have had on this show. What We Dive Into: ​ Why unprocessed emotions don’t simply pass — and how grief settles in the heart, anger in the liver, and fear in the kidneys until they’re physically released.​ How your tongue, pulse, and face reveal what’s happening inside your body, often before any symptom appears.​ Why your original constitution (prakruti) shapes everything from your digestion to your temperament — and how modern life pulls you away from it.​ The gap between two breaths, and why Dr. Lad calls it an ocean of awareness available to anyone willing to sit in it. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://sohumhealing.com/panchakarma-retreat/ Code AndrePK2026 for $500 off your Panchakarma https://www.functionhealth.com/KNOWTHYSELF Code KNOWTHYSELF25 for $25 off membership ___________ 00:00 Intro 01:58 What Ayurveda Actually Means 02:40 The Five Elements, Three Doshas, and the Body 06:18 Prakruti, Vikruti, and the Root of Disease 08:00 The Sankhya Philosophy Behind Ayurveda 13:33 The Goal of Ayurveda 15:26 Dr. Lad's Path: Guru, Calling, and Coming West 18:06 Where Western Medicine Falls Short 22:05 Ama, Agni, and the Ayurvedic View of Disease 25:56 Pulse, Tongue, and Face: The Art of Diagnosis 34:29 Reading Psychological Nature Through the Pulse 39:00 The Gap Between Breaths: Awareness and Mysticism 44:37 How Repressed Emotions Crystallize in the Body 47:39 Panchakarma: Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Cleansing 51:52 Ojas, Tejas, and Prana: The Vital Essences 56:18 Sexual Energy, Celibacy, and the Cultivation of Ojas 1:00:07 Life as Meditation: The Unified Field 1:06:00 The Ayurvedic View of Death and Dying 1:14:56 Dinacharya: The Daily Routine as Spiritual Practice 1:18:48 The Doshic Clock and the Yugas 1:25:22 Relationship, Self-Knowledge, and the Closing Message ___________ MORE FROM DR. VASANT ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drvasantlad 🌐https://ayurveda.com/about-vasant-lad/ MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF 🎙️Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l 🎧Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ 🎬TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum 👥Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ 🌐https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ MORE FROM ANDRÉ ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum 💼Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast 📚Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

    1 Std. 31 Min.
  6. E195 - Dr. Mei Rui: The Science of Sound & Music as Medicine

    19. Mai

    E195 - Dr. Mei Rui: The Science of Sound & Music as Medicine

    Dr. Mei Rui is a Yale-trained molecular biophysicist, concert pianist, and clinical researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she runs trials on the measurable effects of music on the human body. In this conversation, we explore what actually happens in the brain the moment music enters it, why the auditory system is the first sense to develop in the womb and the last to go when we die, and how something as accessible as a curated playlist can outperform FDA-approved pharmaceuticals in reducing cortisol. What We Dive Into: 1. Music is not a supplement to healing. In the right context, it is the intervention. 2. The brain responds differently when you actually show up for the music. 3. A longitudinal study in twins showed that three to four years of musical training reduced the risk of Alzheimer's and cognitive decline by 64%, an effect size found in no other single activity. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Oneskin — Code KNOWTHYSELF for 15% off - Limited time only! https://oneskin.co/KNOWTHYSELF BASED Body Works — Code KNOWTHYSELF for 20% and a free toiletry bag! https://www.basedbodyworks.com ___________ 00:00 Introduction: Dr. Mei Rui 01:44 A Life Between Music and Science 05:26 What Happens When Music Enters the Brain 07:26 How the Brain Processes Sound and Music 11:32 Why Minor Keys Feel Sad: The Science of Tonality 14:37 Live Piano Demo: Matching Music to Mood 19:06 Music in the Operating Room 27:41 Music as Medicine: Clinical Applications 29:10 The 32% Cortisol Study 31:19 The 16 Compositional Elements of Healing Music 35:11 Oxytocin, Familiarity, and the Parasympathetic Response 36:18 Timbre and the Cello's Resemblance to a Mother's Voice 42:31 Cymatics: Sound Made Visible 45:16 The Ancient Roots of Music as Healing 47:09 Listening vs. Playing an Instrument 55:33 The Musician's Brain: Structural Differences 57:46 Music Training and Protection Against Alzheimer's 59:44 Music, Empathy, and Neural Synchrony 1:01:36 The EEG Experiment: Reading André's Brain Live 1:18:21 What the EEG Data Revealed 1:22:26 Music, Flow State, and the Disappearance of Self 1:26:55 Music as Spiritual Medicine 1:30:23 How to Listen More Intentionally ___________ MORE FROM MEI ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@meiruipiano MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF 🎙️Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l 🎧Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ 🎬TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum 👥Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ 🌐https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ MORE FROM ANDRÉ ✨Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum 💼Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast 📚Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

    1 Std. 35 Min.
  7. E194 - Arthur Brooks: How To Find The Meaning of Your Life

    12. Mai

    E194 - Arthur Brooks: How To Find The Meaning of Your Life

    Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, social scientist, and three-time New York Times bestselling author whose life's work centers on a single, urgent question: what actually makes a human life feel meaningful? In this conversation, we explore why depression and anxiety have surged since 2008, how technology has hijacked the part of the brain responsible for wonder and meaning, and what it looks like to live, as Arthur puts it, like his great-grandfather Leroy, present, bored at times, and genuinely alive. What moved me most in this conversation is how Arthur bridges the ancient and the scientific without losing either. We get into the three components of meaning, coherence, purpose, and significance, as well as the dangers of extrinsic reward, the psychology of calling, and why the formula most of us are running on is just slightly off. His answer to the meaning crisis is not complicated. Use things, love people, worship the divine. But getting there requires honest self-examination, and this conversation is a strong beginning. MUDWTR - Up to 43% off sitewide (and a free frother!) https://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyself [Code: KNOWTHYSELF] Try LMNT & get a free sample pack https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself BiOptimizers - Best magnesium to enhance your sleep https://www.bioptimizers.com/knowthyself Use code KNOWTHYSELF for 15% off at checkout André's Book Recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list ___________ 00:00 Introduction: Arthur Brooks 01:54 The Modern Meaning Crisis 02:47 Coherence, Purpose, and Significance 06:17 Why Meaning Collapsed After 2008 14:19 The Doom Loop of Technology 20:22 The Death of Boredom 25:13 Ad: Mudwtr 26:34 Living Like Leroy: The Case for Real Life 30:05 Six Practices for the Right Hemisphere 36:22 The Morning Routine and Brahma Mahurta 43:35 Ad: LMNT 44:39 Ad: BiOptimizers 45:47 Breaking Free from Your Phone 49:07 Romantic Love and the Paradox of Choice 54:59 Finding Your Calling 1:01:29 Progress, Arrival Fallacy, and Living Now 1:17:22 Enjoyment, Satisfaction, and Meaning 1:19:36 The External Scoreboard and Love Is Not Earned 1:25:10 The Four Idols 1:29:49 Self-Transcendence and the Divine 1:37:40 Marriage, Adoption, and Walking to Heaven 1:45:03 Suffering, Beauty, and Meaning 1:53:59 Use Things, Love People, Worship the Divine ___________ Episode Resources: https://www.arthurbrooks.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arthurcbrooks/ https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/ https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ https://www.youtube.com/@knowthyselfpodcast https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com

    1 Std. 59 Min.
  8. E193 - Dr. Paul Conti: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Understanding Your Mind

    5. Mai

    E193 - Dr. Paul Conti: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Understanding Your Mind

    Dr. Paul Conti is a psychiatrist, trauma specialist, and author whose work centers on one deceptively simple idea: that understanding yourself is the most powerful thing you can do for your mental health. In this conversation, we explore how the unconscious mind quietly sets the boundaries for how we think, feel, and move through life, and how much of what we assume is just "who we are" was actually formed long before we had the words for it. What struck me most in this conversation is Paul's insistence that looking inward doesn't have to be frightening. He introduces the concept of the generative drive, the part of us that moves toward creativity, altruism, and genuine contribution, and makes a compelling case that this is what separates a life that feels full from one that simply accumulates. We also get into the myths we build from isolated facts, why the traditional psychiatric model falls short, and what it actually means to bring compassionate curiosity to yourself. BiOptimizers - Best magnesium to enhance your sleep https://www.bioptimizers.com/knowthyself Use code KNOWTHYSELF for 15% off at checkout Try LMNT & get a free sample pack https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself André's Book Recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list ___________ 00:00 Intro 02:05 Assessing Mental Health Like Physical Health 03:04 The Unconscious Mind and Its Hidden Influence 06:30 How Identity Forms in Early Childhood 08:23 Compassionate Curiosity as a Practice 11:02 Empowerment, Agency, and the Healthy Self 15:34 The Assertion, Pleasure, and Generative Drives 24:26 What Humility Actually Means 27:09 Ad: BiOptimizers 28:18 Shame, Feelings, and the Lessons We Carry 35:10 How Memories Build the Myth of Self 42:32 Ad: LMNT 43:41 Waking Up vs. Growing Up 48:10 The Limits of Diagnosis-Driven Psychiatry 51:07 What We're Really Striving For 58:18 Self-Worth and External Achievement 1:02:12 Anxiety as Adaptive and Maladaptive 1:09:52 Defense Mechanisms and How They Shape Us 1:16:51 Tools for Self-Inquiry and Lasting Change 1:25:52 Repeated Patterns and Relational Wounds 1:29:45 Hard-Won Growth and Gratitude 1:32:12 Paul's Personal Story: Loss and the Path to Medicine 1:37:17 Presence, Suffering, and the Art of Helping 1:41:35 Closing Message: Your Mind Is Your Friend ___________ Episode Resources: https://www.drpaulconti.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Going-Right-Powerful-Optimizing/dp/1538776049 https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/ https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ https://www.youtube.com/@knowthyselfpodcast https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com

    1 Std. 45 Min.

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Know Thyself is a community supporting you to KNOW the true nature of yourself and the world around you, THRIVE in your health, wealth, and relationships – ultimately empowering you to CREATE and share your true self with the world. Each week André Duqum interviews experts in their field; ranging from spiritual educators to cutting edge scientists, heart-led creatives & more on topics such as the true nature of ‘Self’, “what is reality?,” and exploring the fundamental pillars we all need to unlock our fullest potential. Contributing to birthing a more beautiful world, one episode at a time.

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