Happiness Expert: "Phones Destroy Your Meaning!" Escape By Doing THIS In The First Hour of Your Day!

Today's guest is an expert on purpose, meaning, and the science of happiness. Opening up your phone 205 times a day, which is what the average American is doing. That's the reason you're lonely. That's the reason you're depressed. That's the reason you're anxious. >> A kid from Seattle, he dropped out of college to become a professional French

horn player before transitioning to politics where he ran the most powerful conservative think tank in America. You can be very happy and rich. You can be very happy and powerful. You can only ever be happy in spite of fame. The desire for the adoration of strangers is the belief that your self-worth is

something that actually has to be earned by the attention of other people. Recently, he spent the last 7 years teaching Harvard's most successful students why success will never make them happy and shares his work with millions of followers online who seek his wisdom to find their purpose. The neurocognitive magic that actually happens with your brain in the first

hour of the day. Catholics call it the holy hour. Hindus call it the Brahma makerta. Don't look at your phone for the first hour of the day. In this episode, we'll explore how social media has created the least social generation. Expose the meaning crisis he says is destroying our civilization. And question if the dreams you're chasing

are actually yours or the ones that you were programmed to want. Arthur, if I gave you a billion dollars to make an entire generation miserable, how would you do it? You know, I wouldn't have to cuz it's already been done. Arthur C. Brooks, welcome to the Jack Hill podcast. Nice to be with you, Jack.