The Optimal Life
People are struggling with their mental health, and the industry desperately needs to evolve to be more affordable, accessible, and effective.
Join Elliot Barnett in inspirational and educational discussions to empower your understanding of the latest science and research in the mental health industry. Through thought-provoking discussions with experts, researchers, and changemakers, Elliot pushes past the boundaries the mental health industry has established. You’ll learn not just how to think differently about mental health, but how to create real, lasting change in yourself and others, empowering people to live their Optimal Life.
It is time to usher in the new era of mental health!
The Optimal Life
The Power of your Predictive Brain
In this episode, Elliot introduces the groundbreaking research that pushed Cognitive Response Therapy to an all-new level, the research of predictive coding.
Your mind is constantly generating predictions that drive how you show up in the world, which then drives habitual patterns, which then becomes your life.
If this model holds true — and the mounting evidence suggests it does — then the implications for mental health are enormous.
It means that disorders aren’t diseases in the traditional sense. They’re maladaptive prediction patterns.
It means therapy isn’t about managing symptoms — it’s about retraining the prediction system itself.
And it means transformation isn’t about fighting who we are — it’s about teaching the mind to expect something better.
That’s the foundation of Cognitive Response Therapy, and why it represents a key part of the new era of mental health.