Well I think you're much more likely to just be better off in terms of your mental health.

You are more likely to report that life is meaningful and worthwhile if you have connections to other people.

You know, a relationship is a delicate dance of kind of helping one person when they're

struggling and then maybe it switches and you help the other person and

this give and take it's not just a quid pro quo there's you know when you're

doing it for the sake of you of really genuinely wanting to help someone because you

care about them, that is emotionally rewarding.

One of the things that's so interesting about human nature is that we are not very good at predicting

what is going to make us happy.

Psychologist refer to this as affect of forecasting.

We're not good at forecasting the affect

is like you're feeling.

How are you going to feel in a given situation?

And, you know, there's a lot of emotional award that comes from helping other people

but we don't you know most of us don't go around and say man if I could just

find more people to help today, then I would be happier, right?

All right, we have a very, very special guest all the way from Connecticut.

Let me tell you some. I love in person interviews my guys out here from Connecticut

We're gonna talk about something very important. You know one of the most common dams I've ever gotten

Is what is my purpose?

How do I find my purpose?

What am I here for?

...