479: Proven tactics to get HAPPIER, live with purpose and enjoy life more! | ARTHUR BROOKS author, speaker and academic
The Rachel Hollis Podcast
Rachel Hollis
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🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The real problem with social media is basically this. |
| 0:03.6 | So there's a neuropeptide that functions as a hormone in the human brain that bonds |
| 0:08.4 | us together. |
| 0:09.4 | It's called oxytocin. |
| 0:10.4 | Oxytocin is incredibly powerful. |
| 0:12.4 | It's intensely pleasurable. |
| 0:14.2 | And I get to look into your eyes right now, which is why doing a podcast is so much better |
| 0:18.1 | in person than it is because of oxytocin, then we get a human link is the way that this |
| 0:22.8 | works. |
| 0:23.8 | Now, one way not to get it is social media, because there's no eye contact. |
| 0:29.3 | It's not in person, it's not even live. |
| 0:32.2 | That's why it's a really big problem. |
| 0:34.0 | However, it promises you human connection. |
| 0:37.8 | You want human connection when you're starving for human connection. |
| 0:41.4 | That means you have a Jones for oxytocin. |
| 0:44.1 | That's what's going on. |
| 0:45.1 | And so you're right. |
| 0:46.1 | So you go to the most convenient way to get human connection, which promises you all |
| 0:50.2 | the rewards, but doesn't give you any oxytocin. |
| 0:53.9 | This is basically like I'm hungry, so I'm going to go fill up on burgers and fries. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.7 | Today, you can become both obese and malnourished simultaneously by eating the wrong diet as |
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