Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Happiness and Depression can feel like slippery and befuddling things.

We can do the things we've been told to make us happy

while still not feeling satisfied.

Or on paper, our lives can look great,

yet we still feel depressed.

And the advice that's out there about these states doesn't always... Our lives can look great, yet we still feel depressed.

And the advice that's out there about these states

doesn't always seem to correspond to our lived experience.

Ryan Bush has created a new map he thinks can help us make better sense of life.

Ryan is a systems designer with a long-standing interest in

psychology and philosophy, the founder of designing the mind, a self-development

organization, and an author. His latest book is Become Who You Are,

a New Theory of Self-esteem, Human Greatness,

and the Opposite of Depression.

Today in the show, Ryan explains the two dimensions along which we usually plot her happiness,

and what he thinks is the missing third dimension, virtue.

Ryan then impacts his virtue's self-signaling theory,

which he thinks can heighten happiness and reduce depression,

and which is premised on the idea

that if you want to live a flourishing life,

you have to give yourself reasons to

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