Arthur C. Brooks

He's done all of this interesting research on it.

He says you have a warmth, a feeling of warmth in your chest.

It gives you a sense of imagination that you wouldn't have had otherwise.

And that's absolutely the case.

So one of the things that I recommend, I prescribe to people who are really in a funk, they can't find the meaning of their life, is they start looking for moral beauty.

Now that starts with the way that you curate your relationships.

Start avoiding the gossips around you.

Start avoiding the people that are actually trashing other people.

Start hanging out with the people that admire others, that have positive things to say.

That's really important.

Yeah, because being around negative people is only going to make you feel worse.

And it gives you this like weird sense of relief at first and then it's empty.

It's emptiness is what comes later.

You walk away.

The second thing is to actually spend your time doing things where you're going to witness moral beauty.

That means do a service trip instead of a beach trip.

That's a really beautiful thing to do.

And people are like, what, I'm going to spend my vacation putting roofs on houses for poor people?

Yep.

Yep, that's exactly what I'm saying.