Well what's up my friends this is the Jason Stapleton program the entrepreneurial

podcast that breaks down the skills you need to start and grow a business that

creates more wealth and freedom for you and that sounds like your jam let's get

started. Hey what's up everybody happy Monday to you? So glad that you're here

we're talking about happiness today. Happiness equation which is that I will

admit admittedly is an odd topic to talk about on a business show but I was

listening to of all things I was listening to some interview with Oprah Winfrey

and she was talking to a guy named Arthur Brooks who heads up a program at

Harvard where he is he calls himself a you know a professor of happiness and I

had never heard of him before and I'm not a I'm not like a huge Oprah fan I'm

not I'm not reading the latest book from her but she wrote a book with this

guy Arthur Brooks and so I found the the conversation between the two of them

really interesting because I think that well I know I'm gonna show you some

stuff today and talk about some statistics today that prove that we are we're

less happy than we have ever been and at least since they started recording

this stuff and the loneliness index of people how lonely they feel and all of

the associated negative health effects of being lonely that that is

continuing to rise despite us being more connected than ever and this is not

anything that you haven't heard before but I want to I started doing a little

bit more research on it this weekend into Arthur and reading some of his books

and bits and pieces and listening to a lot of what he's had to say and he said

he's brought up some really interesting points that I think will help because

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