Humans possess a generative drive that motivates creating new things and exploring the unknown.

“but what's deterministic there is whether whether aggression or assertion again we could put different words to that drive but what we've been calling the aggressive drive and the pleasure Drive are they is one or the other or both high enough to Trump the generative drive or low enough to Trump the generative drive”

“so if we look at it as an unlimited upside right then what we what we see is I want to know where they at in me now right what's going on inside of me what are all those other factors right because I want to cultivate the good I want to cultivate that generative drive and I want to make sure the aggression and the pleasure aren't out of balance one way or another like we can actively look at that and manage it”

“Essentially what I'm saying is, at least by my understanding, we all have drives to some extent or another. And to the extent that our aggressive drive is very high and pleasure drive is very high, and whether or not it's pointed in the right direction, it can be generative.”

“So if the goal of health is that aggression and pleasure, those drives are subserving the generative drive, then start to look there.”

“that other thing is the generative drive and aspects of philosophy and literature and religious study iies and”