My interview with Josh Dippold on his Inner Skilled podcast.

“We’re all stupid… You really have to try to improve yourself… consider yourself as a garden that needs to be tended.”
― Lincoln Stoller
Lincoln Stoller, PhD, 2026. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) www.mindstrengthbalance.com
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My June 2026 interview with Josh Dippold on his Inner Skilled podcast.

The conversation flows into my marriages and recurring dream figures (parents and ex-wives), the value of dreamwork over psychedelics, alternative education models like Sudbury/Summerhill schools, the sociobiology of motherhood, hypnosis (suggestive vs. exploratory, and its broader cultural role), and practical parenting advice: give children more autonomy, real consequences, and community exposure rather than helicopter oversight.

  • On Childhood: “I felt ignored… I ended up looking outward… wanting to get answers and wanting to connect.”
  • Creativity and Institutions: “To be creative means there’s a lot of monkeying around… you have to be okay with failing.”
  • Science and Ego: “You’re not going to get a mathematical rebuttal… You’re going to get an ego rebuttal.”
  • Dreams: “Dreams… exist to disintegrate your world… They confront me with what I don’t know.”
  • Therapy vs. Physics: “Psychotherapy is a welcome relief. You get to deal with other people’s problems and you get to criticize and judge and get paid for it.”
  • “We’re all stupid… You really have to try to improve yourself… consider yourself as a garden that needs to be tended.”

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