Dr. Paul Conti

But if we set that up to be something that it isn't, right?

Like, is that what the person was really thinking when they said, I want to have a good life.

I want to do good in the world.

What was that linked to?

And there may be something else that's overlooked, right?

Very often there are other things people end up

doing something in the community around them.

I can think very, very recently of a woman who is now, she's doing some tutoring with kids who are really having a hard time.

And you think, how's that changing her life?

Well, it's a direct human-to-human contact, right, that...

It gives her something that she can see the impact of her being a good person in the world and giving something of herself.

Like at the end of each of those hours, she's with that person.

She sees that and she knows that.

It doesn't mean that she doesn't want to strive financially and strive professionally.

She's still doing all of those things, but she's like, oh, right, that's not the one measure of how I'm building happiness, right?

And she didn't get to that through...

greed or through arrogance.

She just got through life is complicated and it's hard.

I often think it's like being strapped to the front of a fast car that's accelerating, right?

It's moving very fast around us.