Get ready for this stat that's going to rock your socks.

Okay, from a University of Sussex study, they found that reading for just six minutes can reduce stress levels by up to 68%.

It lowers your heart rate and eases muscle tension, and it was more effective than other relaxation techniques like listening to music, drinking tea, or going for a walk.

Now, add to that that there's something about language that is necessary for brain health.

It's like going to the gym for your brain.

And if we even go deeper than this, there's an absolute crisis of meaning that's happening

for us because we're so entrenched in things like Chad GBT and our phones that we're missing the

essential moments of our life. We're missing deep, important connections. And if you're not

bored, you can't marinate and think and dream and get hit by the intuitive messages from

your soul, from God, from the universe, whatever

you want to call it, that direct your life, that allow you to feel the things that you

need to feel in order to decide what you want to do and what you want to move towards and what

you want to move away, including people and choices.

So I'm doing two things at once.

I'm starting a book club on Substack.

And we are reading a literal book called The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur Brooks,

who I recently had on the podcast.

So we are both going to be exploring meaning and how to create it in our lives.

And we're also going to get to hang out every week for four weeks starting April 14th.

So if you're like, wait, what? This sounds amazing. We're going to do a live Zoom call every Tuesday.

So we get to connect, we get to read, and we get to write, and we get to create meaning. It doesn't

get better in this. So if this sounds like something you're interested in,

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