Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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You know, like, oh, you're out of touch.
Like, that's just the way it is.
No, that is not the way it has to be.
They're right that that's the way it is.
It does not have to be that way.
That's the message that my movement is trying to convey.
And that's what we're actually making some progress because nobody really wants it that way.
It's called a collective action trap.
Nobody wants it to be this way.
But if anyone opts out and says, I'm not gonna work on my looks, well, now they're at a disadvantage in some ways.
But I think a better way to respond to that line of argument and that fellow who advocated everyone working on their looks, let's just spend a moment talking about what leads to happiness.
Because we actually know a lot about that.
The whole field of positive psychology is about that.
What are the conditions of human flourishing?
And it's not rising in status on this one dimension of looks.
It's the degree of embeddedness that you have between yourself and others, yourself and your work or something productive, and yourself and something larger than yourself.
At least this is the conclusion I come to in my book, The Happiness Hypothesis.
I synthesize ancient wisdom, modern psychology, but it fits with Sigmund Freud who said, love and work are the two key areas.
So the point is we want to raise kids and we want to be ourselves, people who have lots of close relationships, not a huge number, but close.
We are embedded, connected.
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