Arthur Brooks

They're having a meaning crisis.

They're having a happiness crisis is the reason they're doing this in the first place.

So coherence, number one, why things happen the way they do.

Second, why am I doing what I'm doing?

That's purpose.

Purpose and meaning are not the same.

Purpose is...

goals and direction so you can make progress so why am i doing what i'm doing if the answer is i don't know then you can't make progress because we're just going in circles you're just a our carnival cruise ship just kind of randomly going around and around and around and around it's the reason i find cruises unbelievably depressing they don't go someplace right i'm a teleological individual like you i want a goal right and that's purpose and so in the in the

In the research, you know, Sonia Lubomirsky's stuff.

Have you had her on the show?

She's coming on next week or the week after?

Super good.

Yeah.

She's awesome.

And she's at UC Riverside.

And she does these work on goals.

And you'll give students these just random goals.

Like you're getting a B minus in physics, you know.

Let's get a B plus this semester.

Just that goal.