André Duqum

Yep.

To the other end where, you know, at the deepest end, you know, full crisis, like I can't stand every day, you know, and for all of them, your new book, The Meaning of Your Life, the studies that you've been doing, what you've really devoted the past many decades of your life researching and studying and triangulating on is why that's the case, the solutions, the many different solutions to that.

So for everybody who's listening to this conversation that maybe reads your new book and studies your work,

What is the promise after having listened to this conversation that they can get more insight on so that we can spend the rest of this conversation fulfilling on?

Fantastic.

So let's go through some of these.

That was well said.

The doom loop is an aspect that I think a lot of people can relate to.

Obviously, through 2008, even before and especially the past many years, this advent of social media and technology has bared so many incredible fruits and at the same time enabled so much neuroses and dopaminergic solutions to what we used to, you know, have much healthier outlets for.

Right.

So what is the doom loop?

And let's kind of go and I'm curious your thoughts on technology in particular.

I think as the rise of AI becomes more and more pervasive, we can see...

What we really value is competence and predictability and narrowing in on that.

And we are inherently unpredictable, complex creatures like you're referring to, you know?

And so when someone's scrolling to their last brain cell fries on social media or TikTok and their life feels devoid of meaning, it can get this, I'm curious your thoughts on how this existential, this existential angst to find the meaning of our life could be

really simply supplemented with a walk in nature.

So to zoom in on that a bit more, what are your thoughts on the death of boredom?

Yeah.

Because it seems like any single moment we have for silence or stillness, we just have the technology to fill it with something stimulating.