Arthur C. Brooks

And when you're a sniper in the Marine Corps, sorry, no phone.

And it's hard and it's dangerous and it's physical.

And I'm telling you, it changed his life.

You know, he came back after four years of that, married with a kid, and his life has plenty of meaning is what we actually find.

You need to do more hard stuff, Max, is what it comes down to.

The problem is this, your great grandfather, who was pretty bored behind that mule, I guarantee you at the end of his life, he didn't say my life was boring because his life wasn't boring.

The problem is you're trying to get rid of the moments of boredom one after the other,

And the result is this adding up to a boring life, and that's what's giving you depression.

That's what's actually bringing you down.

So you need to start doing harder things, picking up heavy things, actually running around.

And here's the number one thing I'd recommend.

Go serve others.

Go do something that's actually hard that requires that you give of yourself.

And when you dedicate yourself to those things, the phone will be maybe not the last thing on your mind, but it certainly won't be the first thing on your mind.

You'll rescue yourself.

Look, you're completely normal,

But the solution is as close as finding a way to make the phone uninteresting to you by being fully alive.

It's just a tool.

That's all it should be is a tool.

That's what it comes down to.