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Dr. K

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2743 total appearances

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Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

The other thing is that if you look at the statistics of it, there's 1.4 billion.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So that pool is pretty big.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So if you take the top 1% of 1.4 billion people of an ethnicity, and then you send them to America, what are their kids going to do when they have all the financial advantages, when they have these cultural advantages, when they're the top 1% of 1.4 billion, which is different from the top 1%.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

I mean, Europe has like...

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

400 million people in it.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

You can take the top 1% of Europe and it'll be like, you know, it's just that it's also a numbers game.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

There's no or.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Everything is and.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So here's the thing to understand.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

I don't like this way of thinking.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

I mean, there's a lot wrong with it, but I don't blame anyone for thinking because this is how humans naturally think.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So a big part of, I think, personal development is training yourself to think in unnatural ways.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Mm-hmm.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Because our natural way of thinking is what biology is for.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And evolution does not select for happiness.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

It selects for survival.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So the people whose genes are getting passed down are not the people who are like waiting until they can afford to have kids.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

They're the people who are having nine kids.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Like those are the genes that are getting passed down, right?

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And so we have an interesting problem as humans because like a lot of โ€“ if we want to be happy, then we have to go against a lot of our programming.