Jonathan Haidt

And I'm like, do you have a guitar at home?

I have a guitar at home.

Too much happening, work and family life, et cetera.

So then I said, well, why don't you just play a guitar?

Mm-hmm.

A little bit every day, you know, because it's that all or nothing fallacy.

It's like if I don't have an hour to play guitar, I'm not going to do it.

But the joy that it can bring you, that meaning and purpose, it's tremendous.

So I think, you know, that's what I use, live a lifetime in a day.

And the reason is because there are two distinct – when you look at how your brain and body –

react to happiness.

There's two distinct types of happiness.

And so there's hedonic happiness and eudaimonic happiness.

Hedonic happiness is all about what we've talked about, social media, consumption, pleasure.

And the other type is eudaimonic happiness, meaning purpose, connection, community, growth-oriented activities.

And so when you live a lifetime in a day, you go towards that eudaimonia, which can then help you and overcome that hedonic.

Because in your brain, there's something called the hedonic treadmill.

And the treadmill is a thing in your brain where no matter what you do, this is like the Instagram lifestyle, right?

No matter what happens, you need more of it.

You need more of it.