Uncomfortable truths about mental health, religion, psychology and more with Dr Sid Warrier

that a lot of the final outcomes of religious or spiritual discussions were

on point my follower count went from 300 to 50 000 that brings with it a lot more

attention interaction validation lack of validation depression I remember the time

I realized that I was in the flight and I opened my phone to check somebody's number

and I found myself opening Instagram and I was on airplane mode for God's sake that's when I

realized that oh my God this my thumb is doing things that are not logically acceptable it was

an unfortunate conversation I for a few minutes I tried to engage try to add more nuance and I

very quickly realized that when somebody sees an opportunity to take a moral High Ground for

even a second they will take it I grew up with the belief that aliens exist [Music]

I know that we've been trying to get this to work for a while now the the timeline has been crazy

but I'm glad that we're finally getting down to do this for those of you who don't know me I'm

DR sitharth warrior I'm a neurologist in Mumbai so I've been practicing for the last three years

before that I've been studying for the last 15 years I've I did my Mbps my post graduation in MD

medicine and my super specialty in DM neurology for the last three years I've been creating

content I have been talking about Neuroscience mental health basically converting what I know and

what I've learned from the hospital into the into a Layman conversation about the brain I believe

it's an important conversation that everyone needs to have because at some point most of our mental

psychological issues do stem from the brain so I'm trying to fill that Gap in the conversation the

more that I've read into science or as scientific advancement has happened it ends up a lot of the

time validating traditional practices which as you've mentioned may not have had a scientific

theory behind them but there was this rationale embedded in that tradition or culture which was

proven at an observational level and that's why those practices have been kept over time

over generations and you then realize that maybe the scientific backing was always there it just

needed a bit of time to be discovered or revealed over time yeah that's a lovely way of putting it

there is a line from talib's book he talks about the Lindy effect which is anything that lasts

over a period of time that there is bound to be a lot of evidence behind it it might not be the

scientific evidence that we have become used to but it is observational it is lived evidence so

people have tried living in different ways and found that this one works now why does it work at

a neurochemical level we didn't have the evidence before to explain it but now we are getting more

and more evidence so it really interests me that some of the habits that my grandfather and my

grandmother used to tell me to do now seem to make a lot of sense and it's a shame that we don't do

them we are understanding now but I would be very hesitant to break down an ancient wall

without completely understanding what was it supporting the Lindy effect is a great framework

to view a lot of things from different domains and it also ties in with this analogy of chesterson's

fence where you'll have those two different types of individuals who walk into a field they'll see a

fence that's been constructed and one perspective of an individual is that I'm not really sure why

someone's put it here let me just take it down whereas the second perspective of the second

individual it's more along the mind frame of maybe it's been put there for a reason I may not know

what that reason is it's not obvious to me but I'm not going to take it down straight away yeah