The real problem with social media is basically this. So there's a neuropeptide that functions as a hormone

in the human brain that bonds us together. It's called oxytocin. Now, one way not to get it is social

media because it's not, there's no eye contact. It's not in person. It's not even live. However,

it promises you human connection. You want human connection when you're starving for human connection.

That means you have a Jones for oxytocin.

This is basically like I'm hungry, so I'm going to go fill up on burgers and fries.

Three meals a day.

You can become both obese and malnourished simultaneously by eating the wrong diet.

That's too high in calories to nutrients.

Social media is the junk food of social life, which is why you get lonelier but binge it at the same time again and again and again.

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Welcome to another episode of the podcast and a new edition in our Mastermind series.

If you've never listened to a Mastermind episode, you're in for a treat.

These are conversations with all sorts of people.

More specifically, some of the experts, teachers, leaders, musicians, artists that I have been able to interview over the last eight years of doing this show.

So what happens in these episodes is that I

choose a topic and then we find four experts that I have spoken with about this particular subject

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