Doctor Mike

And the answer is, well, a lot of people are using it as their friend, lover, or therapist, which is exactly wrong.

Look, there's one thing in life you can't simulate, which is meaning.

He's also the author of a new book called-

finding purpose in an age of emptiness.

It's not because of the food gentlemanly paunch.

It's mixed.

Okay.

And it's one of the things I tell my students.

My students are master's students at the Harvard Business School.

They start with a misapprehension about happiness, about well-being.

They think that if they achieve worldly success, then happiness comes for free, that it comes automatically.

And I tell them on the first day of class, here's how it works.

Shoot for happiness.

And by the way, this is going to create panic for all strivers watching this.

Shoot for happiness, and then you will be successful enough.

And they go, because of that last word.

Because of that last word.

Because enough is antithetical to what we're trying to do in the hustle culture, in the culture of pure work excellence.

And so the result of it is that many of my students do fine.

But the ones who do fine are the ones that actually do shoot for happiness.