Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2026-05-11
Books mentioned on What's Going Right: Dr. Paul Conti On Self-Sabotage, Trauma & Why Being Hard On Yourself Is Slowing You Down
Dr. Paul Conti is a psychiatrist and author of the new book “What's Going Right.
Rich Roll discussed What's Going Right by Paul Conti.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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What's Going Right
What's GoingRight by Paul Conti is a mental health book that focuses on human flourishing, agency, and empowerment rather than pathologizing human struggles.
Discussed“What I think is really interesting about this book is the fact that agency and empowerment are central pillars and themes and you are taking a very proactive approach to people's mental health. We're in this paradigm of pathizing everything. It's a sort of diagnosis and prescribed mentality. And this book is really about like how can we flourish instead”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged What's Going Right
“And that's what I'm trying to do in the book. It's not that it's all new. I like to think that there's a new idea or two in there, but most of what I'm doing is pulling together what we already know and saying, "Hey, we can look at this and we can approach our mental health with the same”
Plugged What's Going Right
“In the book I write two different perspectives of my life and they're both quite brief.”
Plugged What's Going Right
“And I write in the in the book about Aleandro Zenardi who woke up after an accident and had lost both legs.”
Plugged What's Going Right
“And I try I try and give a lot of guidance, a lot of practical steps in the book, but I'll I'll I'll pick a couple of them that I think really um kind of really stand out to me.”
Plugged What's Going Right
“And that is what I've tried to do in this book. Not because I've invented it out of nowhere, but because we human beings have been working hard on this for many, many years. and we can pull it together and we can use it as a template for like this is what self inquiry looks like, right?”