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Chris Johns

πŸ‘€ Speaker
3108 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

If you want to sit with people...

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

come and sit with me in the pub or in my kitchen.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

And if I'm talking, let me talk.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

If I'm silent, let me be silent.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

If I'm crying, let me cry.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

There's no fixing me, but turning up is incredibly important.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

And some people get that and some people don't.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

You touched on money and meaning and all that kind of stuff.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

I think one of the reasons that's connected to all of this is that our

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

societies have taken a wrong turning in that the collective belief that we have when it comes to things like money and all that stuff that's associated with it is that more is good.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

And I could go on about this all day, but I just observed that the richest man in the world, Mr. Musk,

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

is an obviously very unhappy ketamine adult freak.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

He's as miserable as sin.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

And so money doesn't buy you the happiness that people think it does.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

The puzzle for me is that everybody knows this.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

The other thing that everybody knows, because there's been study after study, data after data about what does make people happy,

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

And there's a famous study, I'm sure you've heard of it.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

It goes by the short title, the Harvard study.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

Harvard University started following in the 1930s, the graduating class of Harvard University.

The Other Hand
The biggest and hardest questions. Perhaps some answers? In conversation with Sarah Carey.

I think John Fitzgerald Kennedy was in the first cohort actually of this study.