Rainn Wilson

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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness | ReThinking with Adam Grant · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

You gotta do something about that.

So you went to five places.

Five places, it's amazing.

In the book, I referenced the grant study from Harvard University, which I'm sure you know tons about.

And they followed these 300 men for like 80 years to find what made them have a good life.

And it all boiled down to essentially connections and having better, deeper, richer, more frequent connections.

And guess what?

We live in a time of increasing isolation when we're all doing this all day and connecting less and less.

And that's really what I learned out on the road.

And it was so beautiful to see whether it was, you know, these beautiful Valkyrie Viking women in Iceland singing and holding hands and walking, doing a cold plunge into the Arctic

whether it was a communal group of people in Ghana growing cocoa beans and collaborating together and trying to kind of uplift their community, whether it's in Thailand where people spend their birthday not receiving presents,

but on their birthday, giving to others.

They spend their birthday going and feeding the poor and tending to the monks and monasteries and temples and giving of their time, which I thought was a wonderful inverse.

And in Los Angeles,

where everyone has a podcast.

But again, it really was just about these beautiful ways that humans connect and how that's where the work lies.

The work lies in just bringing people together in unique ways, creating bonds of love and unity and community and social change based in grassroots movements of loving people working together.

I think you put your finger on something really important.

But what religion, I believe, can give folks at its best is a group of common folks coming together, seeking transcendence, seeking communion, seeking connection with nature, with God, with eternity, living, especially if they're doing service to others and serving the poor and coming together to give of their time.

and their energy and their schedule and their status to serve other people.

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