Arthur Ciaramicoli

I mean, we are at a point where we work too hard, we sleep too little, we love with half a heart, and then we wonder why we're stressed and unhappy.

And the empathy rates, there's a number of studies that are done every year where they test college seniors going into the workplace and what characteristics do they rate most importantly.

Empathy used to be in the top five, top three 20 years ago, 25 years ago.

Now it's below 10, 12, 13.

The first thing that people are emphasizing is making money.

So we have begun to put a tremendous emphasis on status

and image and prestige and far less emphasis on character and integrity.

And it certainly is pervasive in our society currently.

Yes, yes.

And you're hurting yourself when you misperceive.

Even people who maintain that they believe in their prejudices, once they realize that they're actually hurting their health and their physiology, they start to take heed a bit.

And yes, the way we think, the way we perceive is how we produce stress for the most part.

And we're damaging our entire physiology, our heart, our brain, our immune system.

on and on.

The stress hormone cortisol is incredibly damaging if it's experienced on a regular basis.

No.

I mean, if you examine little children, they're not worried.

One-year-olds are not worried.

Two-year-olds are having a great time.

We learn to worry by the environment we grow up in, and anything that's learned can be unlearned.