Lewis Howes

He realized how empty it was.

He's got that George Clooney.

What a great actor.

He's got that new movie on Netflix, Jay Kelly.

Have you seen it?

It's called Jay Kelly.

It's the same movie as up in the air.

He's a movie star playing an aging movie star who's looking for the ultimate role because then he will have arrived.

It'll be enough.

And he sacrificed all of his happiness and his love relationships to be special.

He chose specialness over happiness.

That's the premise of the movie.

It's a very, very beautiful movie, actually.

Yeah, and that's evolution.

And there's an actual, we have an evolutionary biological explanation for this.

We're born, Homo sapiens are not made to be happy.

we're made to be special.

Homo sapiens, the brain of Homo sapiens is the same as it was at the beginning of the Pleistocene era, 250,000 years ago, when all of humanity lived in bands of 30 to 50 kin-based individuals, hierarchical kin-based groups of 30 to 50.

And what do you want?

You want to maintain and rise in that particular hierarchy, which is like, and the way that you do that is with more hunting skills, et cetera.