Will A Better World Really Benefit Us & If Not - What Actually Will w/ Soren Gordhamer

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller and this is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode Will A Better World Really Benefit Us & If Not - What Actually Will I’ve struggled with technology and conveniences and efficiency for a long time. All our human advancements with tech and now AI and such are promoted as if they will finally make everything better and us, happier. But I have not experienced any technological advance that has added to my happiness, and actually, I feel it’s done the opposite. How many people have experienced an electricity outage and have stories of how great it was. We get out candles, play games, and talk like we haven’t in ages. On a more grand scale, are all our advances that arguably make life better, resulting in more happiness? Not according to our constantly declining health stats. So if all the “betterment” efforts aren’t making us happy, why? And what will? My guest is Soren Gordhamer. Soren is the founder and host of Wisdom 2.0, the premier conference exploring living with greater mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion in the modern age. Soren brings the leaders of technology, literally the giants who most impact the world as we know it, together with leaders in wisdom to explore how we can create a truly livable world with greater presence, purpose, and connection in this digital age that feels more and more like chaos just speeding up. Soren's work focuses on a central question: as technology becomes ever more integrated into our lives, will it support human thriving and connection—or drive distraction and isolation? He's culminated what he's learned about the influence of tech and now AI into a new book, The Essential: Discovering What Really Matters in an Age of Distraction. I sat down with Soren to get candid on my feeling that all our advancements are not and will not make us happier, and in fact, will continue to add to our declining mental health. Soren sights AI in health as expectant to do great things, such as find a cure for cancer. But I ask that even with that, a cure for cancer, will that actually make us happier? Listen in to hear his response. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,
0:07.4	will a better world really benefit us? And if not, what actually will? I've struggled with
0:16.6	technology and conveniences and efficiency and such for a long time. All our human
0:23.4	advancements with tech and, of course, now AI, they're promoted as if they're going to
0:28.5	finally make everything better and make us happier. But I just haven't experienced any
0:34.8	technological advance that's really added to my happiness.
0:39.5	I actually feel it's done the opposite.
0:41.1	It doesn't mean I don't use the remote control for the TV or that I don't use GPS when I'm driving somewhere.
0:48.8	I mean, it's there, it's available.
0:50.4	It is easier and efficient and, quote, saves time.
0:53.5	I'm just questioning this concept that it actually makes life
0:58.0	better in the aspect of it actually makes me happier i mean how many people have had the experience
1:04.4	with an electricity outage and you've got stories of how great it was you know you got out candles
1:09.5	and figured out how to make some food or just
1:11.9	eat something that was available. You played games or something or you talked like you haven't in
1:16.3	ages. Well, on a more grand scale, with all our advancements that arguably make life better,
1:23.1	do they result in more happiness? Or would we be happier if it was the apocalyptic concept
1:27.9	and we had to go back to hunting and gathering our food and eating by candlelight?
1:34.7	And so if all the better meant efforts aren't making us happy, what will?
1:40.6	Well, my guest here is Soren Gordhammer.
2:02.6	Soren is the founder and host of Wisdom 2.0. One of the pieces of that is it's a conference that explores living with greater mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion in the modern age. So Sorin brings leaders of technology, literally the giants who most impact our world at large.
2:19.3	And he brings them together with leaders in wisdom to explore how we can create a truly livable world with greater presence and purpose and connection in this digital age that feels more and more like it's just chaos speeding up soren's work focuses on a central question that i really appreciate as technology as technology becomes even more
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