Dr. Martin Picard

I enjoy it.

You enjoy it?

What does that mean?

Enjoyment is kind of an emotional state, an affective state.

It's an energetic state.

We're all different energy transformers.

You transform energy, and you have this ability to do what you do.

Other people have very different skills and gifts.

I think we were born with something that doesn't seem to be fully just encoded in people's genomes.

There are genetically identical twins that have very different aptitudes and personalities, and we don't know where this comes from.

And then we are fed, we're moved and inspired by different things.

And when people seem to follow that, it appears to bring them energy.

And what this means biologically, the level of mitochondria, I think our research is starting to point in a direction that says, if

You're engaged in things that bring you purpose and fulfillment.

There's another study we did.

We asked people or colleagues in Chicago, asked people before they died, how much sense of purpose do you have in your life?

How meaningful social connections, well-being, right?

And then the negative stuff, depression, loneliness, anxiety.

And then every year they answered those questionnaires.

So we knew how these people felt about themselves, about life, about some –