Dr. Alok Kanojia

I didn't even ask her out on a date.

I was just like, hey, you want to grab food sometime?

I was going to be a monk.

And then I even told her.

I was like, hey, I'm going to be a monk.

This is a temporary thing.

And she's like, yeah, whatever.

Seven years later, you're back from India.

Oh, no.

Well, so I would come back, back and forth.

But so we like dated during that time.

And the cool thing is like, you know, as an educator, right, like it's amazing if you teach someone how something works.

And like love is like not that complicated, actually.

I'm talking about social interaction.

So when I was looking at the mechanisms of this, I realized why going on a movie is a great first date.

You know, people like back when we were growing up, people would go on movies on first dates, right?

And everyone's like, why would you go on a movie for a first date?

You're not even talking or getting to know the other person.

Well, it turns out that movies create shared emotional experiences, which is why people organically figured out that you can go to a movie and it'll actually, it's a great first date.

But I think things do seem bleak, but I think we've got the tools to reverse it.