Mental illness causes significant suffering and reduced quality of life because it often persists chronically rather than resulting in death.

“the thing that causes people the most um poor lowest quality of life and distress are mental illness because they don't die from it, but they have to suffer their lives.”

Allowing oneself to experience boredom is a healthy practice for the mind and brain.

“we were gonna start the boredom movement we were like you should have x amount of time every day where you allow yourself to be born yes and you allow yourself to not do anything and maybe like you said with your children we'd actually do something innately creative and magical”

The current medical approach to mental health and emotional issues is inadequate because it often neglects to examine the brain.

“essentially the idea that the brain is the part of the body that like if you broke your arm they would take an x-ray of your arm before they did anything to try and make it better but if you go to a doctor and you're struggling with mental illness or emotional issues they don't look at your brain”