Safety is fundamentally about the brain's ability to predict outcomes in the environment, which allows mental real estate to be redirected toward creative and explorative pursuits.

“Safety is really about the ability to predict outcomes. Okay? And the brain, after being responsible for all these housekeeping functions, heart rate, etc., is largely a predictive organ. It wants to understand what's going to happen next to the extent that it can then free up mental real estate”

Individuals often mistakenly pressure a single person, such as a romantic partner, to fulfill every emotional need, rather than building a network of relationships that each serve different emotional

“Because often I feel like we put a lot of pressure on our romantic partners or one person in our life to be all these things. And the truth is, no matter how phenomenal anyone is or how much they love us, they just can't be there.”