The crisis of our times that's leading to the suffering is the crisis of meaning.

It's not necessarily, you can't articulate it with the meaning of my life.

I can't put words to it.

But I understand it, and the way that you understand it is because you're using the right hemisphere of your brain.

That's where the mystery and meaning of life is actually processed.

The problem is that modern life has made it harder to find meaning

because we're literally using our brains incorrectly.

He spent years studying success, meaning, and what really makes life worth living.

Now Harvard professor, social scientist and best-selling author, Dr. Arthur Brooks, is showing that a full life isn't built by doing everything, but by making room for what matters most. One of the great reasons that we feel so empty and so meaningless today is that we're living in the Matrix. When chat GPT, all it'll do is just, like, blow smoke at you. Like, that's not helpful to me. What would you say is the meaning of life? It's the answer

to three big questions. If people actually do this, there's a science behind this, they will find

the meaning of life in six months if they actually do this. Okay, Arthur, we see more and more

in the headlines data coming out about loneliness. And I want to dive in on one particular issue that's becoming really important to me. And I am winning in this area. And I want others to win in this area. And this is the data. Only 38% of Americans report having five or more close friends. And I'm not even sure I believe that. But that's still a really low number.

That's a low number. It's going down. It's going to wait. So that you find that more than 50% of

people for the first time say they have fewer than three friends. And we've been looking at that

number since 1990. And it's been going down and down and down and down. Yeah. And the thing that

concerns me is that I don't know that people see it as the crisis that I think it is. I think it's a looming, like bigger crisis than even is now. Do you agree with that? Yeah, and it's a looming crisis. And we kind of know why. I mean, everybody watching us knows why. It has to do with the fact that we're mediating our relationships through technology. and their virtual friends aren't friends.

They're people that you might have some passing acquaintance with, but it's

not intimate at all. There's no neurochemistry actually between you. You can't get what you need.

These aren't real friends. It's like it's not what you need. But let's look back. I mean, I know we can't put the horse back in, right?

But I think back to the 50s and 60s.

I wasn't alive yet.

But, you know, you think about you borrowed flour or sugar from your neighbor.

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