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The Rachel Hollis Podcast

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

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, How To, Personal Development, Relationships, Personal Growth, Health And Wellness

4.416.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Arthur C. Brooks is an American author, public speaker, and academic. Since 2019, Brooks has served as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and at the Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Fellow. Previously, Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of twelve books, including From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, Love Your Enemies, The Conservative Heart, and The Road to Freedom. Since 2020, he has written the Atlantic’s How to Build a Life column on happiness.

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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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