Arthur Brooks

I'm not religious.

I don't care.

That's not what I said.

Go pray.

Why?

Because when you do that, you will induce a state in your brain and you'll want to do it more.

Yeah, it's especially true in the modern world that it's rare because the modern world is a big mirror.

It's a big me self.

That's especially true in online.

Online, you're looking in a mirror constantly because you're looking not at the dialogue you're having with other people, looking at them.

What you're doing is that you're, think about it as the Zoom problem.

The problem with Zoom when you're in a Zoom meeting is you're always looking at yourself.

in the Zoom meeting.

It's really hard.

It's a really good idea to turn off your own camera or at least your own view of your own camera so you can focus on the other people.

But one of the ways that Zoom has made communication a lot harder for people is because you're always in the me self even when you're trying to be in the I self.

And this is true certainly with social media as well.

You're looking at your likes and your mentions and how do people interact with what I was doing?

And it's this one big virtual mirror of everything that we're doing.

It's become very...