Controversial take meditation won't make you happy

You can't just look for single solutions to complex problems, you know

You can't just put a little band-aid on a big cut and in the modern world

If you go deeper into the roots of why we're actually happy or unhappy

Why depression is on the rise anxiety loneliness?

You know one of my 67 steps was listen to the whisper of 10,000 generations your ancestors have the answers

Not just your ancestors from the 1800s, but your ancestors form

15,000 years ago and

The reason they have the answers is because our actual DNA the encoding

Evolved and adapted over these long

millennia tens of thousands of generations and so

When you come in we're basically the same person

You're basically the same person as your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother and grandfather and so

You know if you for example if you look at

Homo sapiens 95% of our existence by the way. I'm on my farm here in the mountains. So

Beautiful here. We'll talk about why that's so important if you can get out of the cities for happiness

But you know 95% of Homo sapiens

Existence on this planet. We were in small tribes

hunter-gatherers you could call it and

Robin Dunbar the

Sociologist anthropologist called it Dunbar's number. We live with less than 150 people in our social group

We were close somewhere family

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