Tim Ferriss

It's about veterans, I believe.

It includes a lot of discussion of veterans.

Tribe really talks about social cohesion, but if you look at, for instance, I think the example... There are a number of examples he gave, but looking at World War II, bombing in the UK, and how...

Admittances to hospitals, now there are a number of different ways you could explain this, but effectively, the incidence of mental illness, suicide, et cetera, all seem to plummet while the city's being bombed.

What's going on there?

And you see a similar pattern in other places.

Well, I think that when you have seemingly everything,

you by default almost necessarily can easily end up majoring in minor things, right?

Because you don't have any major problem to deal with.

But humans love having problems and solving problems.

In order to solve problems, you have to have problems.

So I think humans are problem-solving machines, but the dark side of that is you can become a problem-seeking machine, problem-creating machine.

So these small things take on the proportion of something big, right?

It's kind of like, I'm sure a lot of people have the experience where it's just like, there's some...

old cat lady in the neighborhood who's part of the HOA, and man, is she just a pain in the balls.

Like, she's just like every... Okay, so-and-so didn't put out the recycling bin.

So-and-so didn't whatever.

It's because she doesn't have anything else to do that is bigger, right?

That is kind of forcing her hand.

So if you're really way up on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, I think it's easy to become more sensitive to slight turbulence in life, which is also part of the reason for practicing not just minimalism, not just necessarily poverty, but like subjecting yourself