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Three Rules

103 - The Loneliness Epidemic

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari, author of the NY Times Bestseller Lost Connections, set out across the world to speak with leading experts on depression, anxiety & loneliness to discover what has caused our epidemic of loneliness. And more importantly how to solve it.


To get the full 40 minute interview, as well as other extended interviews & my exclusive AMA podcast sign up at patreon.com/mattdavella.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How has the most connected society and history also become the loneliest?

0:04.6

Why do people even after they have their basic needs met with all the tools we have available?

0:09.6

Why are we not only unhappy but largely depressed?

0:13.0

Welcome back to the Ground Up Show. Today's episode is my 20-minute edited conversation with Johann Hari,

0:18.0

author of The New York Times' bestselling book, Lost Connections.

0:21.8

In it, he sets out across the world speaking with leading experts on depression, anxiety, and loneliness

0:27.1

to discover both how we've gotten to this place and more importantly how we as individuals and a society

0:32.9

can start to turn the tide.

0:34.8

To get the full 40-minute interview as well as other extended interviews and my exclusive AMA

0:39.5

podcast, sign up at patreon.com slash matdivella. Enjoy the show.

0:58.0

Alright, so why don't we start out with a little bit of an intro about yourself and about your work?

1:06.2

I really, I wrote my book Lost Connections because they're with these two mysteries that were

1:10.5

really hanging over me for years. The club was quite afraid to look into them in some ways.

1:16.2

The first mystery is I'm 40 years old and every year that I've been alive, depression and anxiety

1:22.9

have increased here in the United States in Britain and across the Western world, right?

1:29.0

And I kept asking myself why, why is this happening? Why are so many more of us each year that

1:35.8

passes funding it hard to get through the day, right? And I guess I wanted to understand that

1:40.9

from because I'm a more personal mystery. When I was a teenager, I remember going into my doctor

1:47.2

and explaining that I had this feeling like pain was leaking out of me. I put it at the time

1:53.4

and I felt very ashamed of it. I felt confused by it. I didn't understand why it was happening.

2:01.1

And my doctor told me a story that I now realized, from speaking to the leading scientist in the

2:04.8

world on this, was oversimplified, right? My doctor said, we know why people feel like this.

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