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Arthur C. Brooks

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1763 total appearances

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The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And once it's the two of you together, you'll be like, yeah, baby, it's you and me.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

We've got that.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

I don't think they're going to win today.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

I think we're going to win today.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Yeah.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

I guess we really have one because we did five.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And the last one is experiencing more beauty in life.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Life today isn't very beautiful.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And part of the reason is because, well, part of it is technology.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Technology mostly isn't beautiful.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

I mean, if you're looking, if the sum total of your experience of nature is seen through your computer screen,

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

That's sad.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

You know, the average child today spends between four and seven minutes a day in nature and between four and seven hours a day behind a screen.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

That's exactly backwards.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And the result, that's one of the reasons that there's so little sense of meaning because you're forcing into the left hemisphere of your brain where you get a, you're getting a simulation of the beauty in life and the beauty in nature.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Meaning can't be simulated.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Beauty really can't be simulated either.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And you can say, yeah, that, wow, it's a beautiful sunset that I took a picture of and I'm looking at on my phone.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

It's not the sunset.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

It's