Doctor Mike

It's to encourage them to live in such a way that not that they find their meaning, but their meaning finds them.

And the way to do that is to take them out of the overly technologized world

culture of accomplishment, merit, hustle, grind, and especially machines.

And that's how you do that.

The best way that you can do, the easiest way to do that is take your kid camping without devices for a week, is to actually listen to music together with your child, to talk to your child about actual human relationships, to

to actually put boundaries around their basic technology.

To be alive, to be fully alive is what it comes about.

Yeah, don't be a machine.

Don't try to be a machine is what it comes about.

And if we can help young people today live in the experience of actual human life with all of its weird mysteries and its vicissitudes and risks and scary things and...

the terror and the mystery and the love and the meaning, then this is a problem that largely solves itself.

The scary thing is that's harder and harder to do.

And there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to take on that challenge.

Let's write a paper together.

Yeah, about psychology, what keeps me up at night?

About the profession or the research of psychology?

Anything.

Right now, as a behavioral scientist, and I'm trained as a behavioral economist, I'm not on the psychology side is how I came about this, but behavioral science in general,

it's the it's we have an incredible um lack of replicability in our in in the research that's actually going on which is wasting time and making it so people aren't asking the questions that actually could to make could make human life better we're not trying to connect with people in a way that's going to make life better we're doing you know you know dude googahs and and

here's an amazing finding, conjugal infidelity leads to greater happiness.