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00:00 It's my pleasure to introduce Dr. Gabor Mate.
00:02 Dr. Mate has written multiple books and published in 20 languages around the world.
00:06 Whenever I wanted to say something that I thought the world should know about,
00:08 that's when I wrote. I can help so many people.
00:11 You're a best-selling author, but I can't actually find that much information about your story.
00:17 My subjective memory of my childhood is that of a happy childhood.
00:25 When I pondered later on the occasional diary that I kept, I write about being unhappy.
00:30 I have this potential that's nowhere near being realized.
00:33 One morning I said, "I'm going to be a doctor."
00:35 What was driving me? It was idealism. I wanted to serve humanity.
00:41 At the same time, I desperately needed the
00:44 ego enhancement that the doctor title would provide for me.
00:46 The nurses said that working with me is like working in the eye of a tornado.
00:51 What was that?
00:55 Part of the problem was that I believe in everybody's healing, but my own.
00:59 If I let go of all this, what will happen?