Arthur Brooks
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And I've got data and all kinds of experiments from the literature that show that's exactly the case.
As much as if you take photographs on your vacation, you will enjoy the vacation 16% less and about 25% less if you post them to the internet.
So, for example, that's just all that is a sort of empirical verification of the fact that when you're doing something and you're living for other people, when you're trying to hold yourself up to the standards of others, when you're not fully present in the joy that is your life, you're not going to enjoy your life is what it comes down to.
But sure, I mean, you're going to.
But fundamentally, the problem isn't social comparison.
Fundamentally, the problem is that our brains are broken.
Our brains are broken.
We're being shoved 205 times a day on average, which is the number of times that the average American looks at her or his phone, into the left hemisphere of the brain.
The right hemisphere is mystery and meaning and significance and purpose and love and hope.
It's the right side of the brain.
But no, no, you're over there in the world of information you didn't ask for, for things that actually promise you everything and deliver nothing.
And it was the complicated problems of engineering and analysis as opposed to the complex issues of meaning and mystery.
And if you're just never there, well, guess what?
You're going to be sad and angry.
It can, absolutely, although I would contest that it's mostly men, on the contrary.
What we find is that, and this comes from the work of John Haidt, who's just the best on this, and Jean Twenge and a lot of other people, Brad Wilcox down at the University of Virginia, who show that there's incredible problems of depression and anxiety, of mood disorders, of diagnosed mental illness, particularly for progressive women under 30.
Progressive women under 30 have a 56% chance of having been formally diagnosed with at least one mental illness.
Why?
Well, because of this.
Because this is how it's manifest.
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