Social media provides people, especially young people, a source of low-hanging purpose.

Well, hi, everybody. Welcome to The Virtue Signal. I'm Debbie Downer with my partner, Gloomy Gus, here. And as usual, no, actually, we're going to do something different today. We always, we seem to fall a lot into the decay of virtue. But I thought we'd maybe make a little more upbeat episode for a change, because things are not as gloomy as they

sometimes seem to be. I was thinking about something, and I actually, I don't know what it was,

some video I heard or something, but I was on my own kind of thinking about, you know, my goal in

life is, my political goal is for maximum happiness for the maximum number of people.

But when I did some thinking about this, and like I said, I saw a couple of videos,

it seems to be that the one thing that virtually everybody shares in terms of their number one driver of happiness is not money,

it's not their salary, certainly when you ask people about their work environment, right?

It's purpose. That's what is, to me, by far the largest source of happiness is purpose. And what I thought was interesting to talk about today was the difference between purpose and goals. For instance, you may be, in my case,

it's like I always wanted an airplane, I always wanted to own an airplane, right? That was a goal.

And if I had been the kind of guy whose purpose was to safely transport

people from one place to another, then I would have been an airline pilot. But it's not. And so,

you know, my purpose is to try and show people the way out of this burning building.

And my goals are different than that. And the thing of it is, is that I genuinely believe that

virtually any realistic goal is attainable by virtually anybody in this country. Right. Let's

just say it's something simple.

You always wanted to own a jet ski, right?

You can get a job, save enough money on a jet ski.

That's a goal that you can achieve.

And a lot of people, I think, confused the two,

and they think that, okay, I've got these goals,

and if I achieve these goals, that I'll be happy.

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