True Patriot Love - Why Young Canadians Are Losing Hope ft. Liam

00:00:00.000 It looks to me like we've done this thing where we are replacing inspiring youth with terrifying them.

00:00:08.660 You know, we throw up at them all the time.

00:00:11.220 You're not going to have a future because of AI.

00:00:13.200 The climate is changing.

00:00:14.600 You're going to catch fire.

00:00:16.080 You know, there's a rampant disease and we can't keep up with it.

00:00:19.280 You're going to be locked in your homes again.

00:00:21.140 I think that we do a really good job of scaring the living hell out of youth.

00:00:30.000 the topic is happiness i jotted this down every generation's had its own reference point for

00:00:38.040 happiness survival security prosperity family uh or achievement today we talk about happiness

00:00:43.700 more than ever yet we uh seem to be teaching our kids to fear the future that gives life purpose

00:00:50.760 and happiness itself to talk more about this liam and paul thanks so much uh we are talking

00:00:57.340 happiness everybody happy happy happy well some people it's uh generationally it seems to be a

00:01:03.260 little bit of a gap here because uh yeah recently canada dropped from 25th to uh or sorry down from

00:01:10.540 18th to 25th out of 147 countries in terms of self-reported happiness now it's pretty it's a

00:01:16.940 pretty hard thing to measure in and of itself right you're you're asking people to just answer

00:01:21.980 a few general questions but uh it's definitely being driven by by the youth they're they're more

00:01:29.180 unhappy whereas the uh older generations have stayed more or less stable and so yeah i guess

00:01:34.620 what do you think's causing that well it's a great question i mean i think in a lot of ways i i can't

00:01:41.980 necessarily immediately identify with this because uh you know when i was when i was setting out

00:01:48.460 I wasn't in pursuit of happiness, to be honest with you.

00:01:52.060 I was in pursuit of a career that was obviously going to have some challenges in it.

00:01:56.060 I was in pursuit of being a good young father with a young kid.

00:02:00.860 And I was more concerned about the happiness of my family at that time, probably than my own happiness.

00:02:07.260 I just kind of thought happiness is what happens between other junk going on in life.

00:02:13.600 And that you have to extract that.

00:02:15.740 Those are the memories you extract.

00:02:17.060 that's the happiness over a lifetime that you had i didn't know that we were going to measure it

00:02:21.460 later on in life or i might have paid closer attention but we seem to be measuring happiness

00:02:26.900 can i jump in from it liam who who is measuring happiness well this this one in specific was done

00:02:33.460 between oxford gallup and the un it was kind of a joint joint project to to measure around the world

00:02:40.020 is to to see you to see where where different nations rank on that oh wow oh that's interesting

00:02:46.260 okay and i guess the nordic state the nordic uh countries are the most happy is that kind of what

00:02:51.300 usually comes out yeah right which makes sense right they they've kind of figured out more than

00:02:56.100 we have from a financial perspective you know we thought we do lots of shows on norway and other

00:03:01.860 places but it's i find it interesting so north american countries have slipped i guess in the

00:03:08.580 study so we've gone down um well actually just western countries in general so america canada

00:03:15.860 new zealand and australia have all been declining yeah wow wow the powerhouses of happiness are

00:03:22.500 starting to hit the decline well you know it's interesting as well because this is up against

00:03:28.020 an aging population in north america that isn't necessarily happening in other parts of the world

00:03:32.580 although it is in many parts of the world that seem quite happy uh you know it's i think that

00:03:40.100 combination is making us focus more and more and more on what what can we do to get the same

00:03:47.040 happiness achieve the same things and have the same life that our parents had our grandparents

00:03:53.140 had well and that is a big big shift because even when you look at say the economic aspect it is

00:03:59.640 this generation is viewed to be the first that won't have as much material comfort or greater

00:04:05.280 material comfort than their parents right and so that's a that's a trend that's starting to reverse

00:04:11.200 and so i think you'd you'd expect a little bit of that but even when it comes to the whole

00:04:15.440 happiness topic in and of itself i i think you kind of alluded to it a little bit early on there

00:04:20.320 as well in terms of like happiness isn't a goal despite everything we've been told over the last

00:04:26.480 decade happiness is a byproduct of trying to achieve meaningful pursuits and so when you make

00:04:32.560 it the thing in and of itself you end up not being able to uh to chase it uh liam i have a different

00:04:40.320 report check this one out iris mouse uh and colleagues uh they put this together in the

00:04:45.280 u.s for the journal emotion uh they did this back in 2011 so it's a little outdated but the the

00:04:50.320 premise of it is interesting uh it found a paradox the more importance people place on being happy

00:04:56.800 the less happy they can actually become especially when the circumstances suggest

00:05:01.360 they should be happy the more people value happiness the more likely they will feel

00:05:06.400 disappointed and the research suggests that when happiness becomes the goal uh we create a standard

00:05:11.840 against which we constantly measure ourselves yeah that's an unhappy state which i think is true

00:05:18.000 am i happy enough i don't care if you're happy or not at this very moment this is life and at some

00:05:25.840 other moment you may be very happy but that's i think what happens yeah i'm with you this study

00:05:31.280 I think the one from Oxford and the UN, I think where, if I'm correct, you tell me if I'm wrong,

00:05:37.760 I think they're trying to figure out if we're a happy country, which is kind of funny because

00:05:43.300 that's kind of putting you in, all of you in a bundle or a basket and saying, overall, are you

00:05:48.160 happy because you have a home? Are you happy because you, uh, have a income of a certain

00:05:54.260 amount? Like, are you happy because you have free time? It's really, and it's comparing it, I guess,

00:06:00.260 which which i find it kind of odd mike because you know number one you know you go across you

00:06:06.340 and i just did the tour i don't know about you i'll tell you people on the far tip of eastern canada

00:06:14.020 are way happier right there are parts of canada that but but are very happy but they are but

00:06:20.820 truthfully they don't work a lot either oh that is true right so like they're gone by three o'clock

00:06:26.980 like their productivity is fairly low they're very smart people and i really appreciate everything

00:06:32.580 they do but for the most part if i had to say are they like a fully functional productive community

00:06:38.820 of people no right they're not or or but they're happy because they have lots of free time right

00:06:44.900 well they're you know skiing my best friends who i talk about on the show a lot of time you know

00:06:50.660 i call him in the afternoon now it's an hour and a half ahead right and i'll be like how

00:06:54.660 you doing he's like yeah i'm doing great what are you doing he goes i'm at the rink and then i call

00:06:58.980 him i'm at the gym i'm at the and i'm like dude like like you're at something a lot right like

00:07:06.420 so yeah they maybe have a work-life balance that we don't have in metropolis situations where we

00:07:14.180 have to yeah on the west coast right they're probably happy because they're doing a lot of

00:07:18.740 drugs right i don't know that's all but they got skiing golf for a long time but you're right there

00:07:25.780 there does seem to be in different parts of the country yeah there's a different perspective on

00:07:30.980 on what happiness actually is so it's tough to measure and i i wonder too we're talking about

00:07:36.020 the difference between how much time you spend working versus not working which i think is

00:07:40.980 definitely a factor but then also too what type of work because as we become uh more and more

00:07:49.140 digital per se like think back to for instance my family has a heavy equipment dealership

00:07:57.220 and so the interactions are still very much person to person you've got a kind of community

00:08:03.140 connection to these farmers and construction people around you whereas now it's let's say

00:08:09.220 it's all email you're not actually seeing the result of your work or for instance like uh

00:08:15.540 even out on the east coast a lot of them fisheries and this kind of stuff right like you're actually

00:08:20.100 out there and seeing the results of your labor like you have this thing in front of you that

00:08:24.900 goes i did this today compared to spreadsheets that go off into the like if you spend your

00:08:30.660 entire day just writing reports for somebody else not to read then it's like that just goes

00:08:35.220 into a black hole and it's like how fulfilling is that work exactly too yeah i would agree yeah

00:08:40.420 but you have to remember so canadians just for like let's go through so when we were at our

00:08:45.620 happiest right we were a nation building right i wouldn't say now we're a nation building would you

00:08:53.620 are we do no i i mean it depends on what major projects list you're looking at day to day but

00:08:59.060 are we really out there building a nation no no right we're we're managing a nation right right

00:09:05.780 so we're kind of you know we have an old uh we're struggling with a nation at this moment i think to 0.59

00:09:10.500 some degree yeah we have an aging population we have kind of a you know a challenging immigration 0.99

00:09:16.020 system our education system has been a little bit of a mess over the you know the coming out of

00:09:21.140 covid so yeah you know challenging times but you know you look at it and you think to yourself okay

00:09:27.460 if you know when we took this study was it overinflated i i kind of actually asked the

00:09:32.820 question when i read those all the time were our numbers 10 years ago overinflated like were they

00:09:39.860 you know 10 years ago bragging about being happy when we really weren't that happy or quite frankly

00:09:45.860 were you know the fact that we had a lot more unions a lot more pensions a lot more a lot of

00:09:52.180 things we had which were in the past which were kind of a blip in our let's say from the 1950s

00:09:58.660 to the 1980s or 90s they were things that came yeah now they're gone right can we ever be that

00:10:05.300 happy again because i'll be truth with you know and i think i talked about earlier i'm never my

00:10:10.580 father i'm never going to live the life my father had no i could say i'm unhappy for that my dad

00:10:16.020 retired at 53 right and fully pensioned out you know my he's you know he's still alive which is

00:10:26.340 awesome but he's going on uh to have been retired as long as he worked same with my dad right so

00:10:36.260 he's true they got an expected lifespan of doing things with their life while they were still

00:10:41.140 viable and virile enough to do it well i have that opportunity no right i kind of but does it make me

00:10:47.700 unhappy no right because it's a change of times right like it can't i can't blame my father my

00:10:54.100 father hit the lottery really right my dad hit the kind of the the lucky lottery because he he

00:11:00.420 you know got in he had a hard he worked hard right he was a hard-working guy he ended up getting a

00:11:05.860 good deal at the end and quite frankly he lived a decent middle-class life right with not a lot of

00:11:12.980 effort for as long as he had worked great good for him right are you going to get that at your age

00:11:19.940 no heck no right you're going to work you're going to work a little longer than me probably yeah you

00:11:24.500 will you know it's inevitable right feeling they're going to figure it out somehow i've got faith in

00:11:30.180 but you know this is uh you raise an interesting point paul 36.9 of young adults say that they have

00:11:35.060 life satisfaction well first of all you have your youth so please have 20 percent for that but uh

00:11:42.180 canadian 65 plus remain at 62 percent happiness well that might be because they hit the housing

00:11:50.260 boom and they uh got out with a bunch of money they had a pension or whatever but they're still

00:11:55.380 happy at at 65 plus well of course they maintain that lifestyle yeah all they had to do is breathe

00:12:01.940 need to make money yeah it's great they're they appreciated everything everything in their life

00:12:06.740 went up right like what and you they didn't have to think about it imagine getting up in the morning

00:12:11.220 going i got a pension my house is increasing every year yeah right my investments are increasing

00:12:17.780 every year and all i have to do is go to the bathroom and make it to the grocery store

00:12:23.540 i'd be great too congratulations you hit the lottery you also get the bonus of saying to your

00:12:28.660 kids i don't know why you guys can't figure it out look what i was able to do what's wrong with you

00:12:33.700 but is that real this like yeah the reason i say mike if you look back when we were testing it

00:12:38.500 before yeah other nations must have been think about it you're over in new zealand right and or

00:12:43.540 norway or another country and you're looking at us thinking those canadians man they retired 53

00:12:49.060 and they don't work and they don't do anything right you know what i mean that that those guys

00:12:52.900 got it figured out right we didn't have it figured out we honestly the fact that it's gone meant it

00:12:59.940 didn't work well that's that's a really good point yeah this housing boom is not a reality well

00:13:06.020 that's the other side of it do you think and i don't know if you got this from your it sounds

00:13:10.180 to me like you you were in a uh a scenario growing up where your family was doing stuff in the

00:13:15.780 community of a real hands-on nature and i wonder if you had the same experience as some kids might

00:13:21.860 in the suburbs whose parents are doing covid work from home sorry i mean important work from home

00:13:29.060 but uh this is interesting because it looks to me like we've done this thing where we are replacing

00:13:38.660 inspiring youth with terrifying them you know we we throw up at them all the time you're not

00:13:44.420 gonna have a future because of ai the climate is changing you're gonna catch fire you know there's

00:13:49.700 uh rampant disease and we can't keep up with it you're going to be locked in your homes again

00:13:54.100 we i think that we do a really good job of scaring the living hell out of youth we do it through

00:14:00.180 social media you know this weekend i saw a post and it made me think of this and it was uh two

00:14:05.460 posts in a row one of them was a young man talking about how his college education amounted to nothing

00:14:12.420 in the way of a job the very next one in my stream this is my algorithm is two people on their

00:14:20.340 adventure of a lifetime at about 65 years of age living it up obviously well fed obviously well

00:14:27.060 imbibed and i thought to myself well there it is right there that's the generation gap right there

00:14:32.900 yeah a hundred percent and i i do think often people will turn to to the social media explanation

00:14:38.500 for why among the youth it's it's it's so much worse um and there is the added aspect of okay

00:14:44.720 you're looking at other people they're trying to show you a lot of the times they're not even just

00:14:48.500 showing you the best parts of their life they're completely fabricating how good their life is and

00:14:52.860 then showing you that or how horrible their life is that's the other side of it right um and so

00:14:58.320 there is there is that aspect as well i know that lots of studies have also shown that those effects

00:15:03.460 are often worse on young girls than they are on young boys but then yeah as you're pointing to

00:15:09.860 like it's been non-stop existential risk panic for at least a decade now going back to 20 2015 era

00:15:19.300 of just yeah climate change so on covid now ai and i think it's it's hard not to view that as

00:15:27.340 a concerted push for for the expansion of of things like the government regulation and state

00:15:34.380 state intervention in like i mean even now too you saw dario the head of anthropic come out and

00:15:40.300 you know ask for government regulation just a few days off after um after one of the

00:15:47.740 one of the whistleblowers came out and created a big ruckus right and then you're like these these

00:15:52.540 things are it's it's seeming a little too uh the dots are connected a little too cleanly here to

00:15:58.780 kind of push towards that and so there would be a an incentive in that scenario to push fear into

00:16:06.620 the younger generations to have them ask for these things yes i'm really scared about ai so i want you

00:16:11.740 to step in and do something about it please yes i'm really scared about covid please lock me in

00:16:16.220 my homes and so on in in what does that do to a psyche after a decade of that of just non-stop

00:16:23.260 panic it's an interesting point now i will point this out um um my grandfather yeah world war one

00:16:30.700 world war two in vietnam yeah yeah you know what i mean like the world is always oh yeah for sure

00:16:35.660 that's right and also always gonna have strife i mean it was really funny a friend of mine we were

00:16:41.340 talking about the weekend and he asked his grandfather one time you know what was the uh

00:16:46.140 great depression like his grandfather said what do you mean he said well what was it like he goes

00:16:52.780 it was like every other day we were going through we didn't know we were going through depression

00:16:56.220 they told us that 30 years later we went through depression okay because we were happy we had a way

00:17:02.460 of life we managed to do our thing so i think managing the expectations of a positive life in

00:17:08.060 youth is something we don't do we don't say to them you're probably going to be a plumber you're

00:17:13.020 probably going to be something physical you're probably going to have to do this even though

00:17:16.700 you learned that you're still an intellectual but you're going to have to do this to earn a living

00:17:21.420 you should have a family because this is what comes out of it i don't think we're doing that

00:17:25.500 we're just scaring the hell out of them you won't be able to have kids because your kid

00:17:29.420 your babies will catch fire in the environment outside you know it's just you're right that

00:17:35.740 panic mongering has to stop before we're going to see a generation again that understands they've

00:17:41.780 got a future well it's interesting you bring that up because you know getting ready this morning i

00:17:45.660 was talking to liam on another show of us watching bloomberg and an article of a show uh came on and

00:17:52.700 it was interesting and it was all about uh our birth rates and how um basically women had you

00:18:00.340 know been told they could have it all but then they found that if their income was lower they

00:18:07.580 tended not to they're they're funny now if lower higher income women have children lower income

00:18:12.560 women don't have children and so they're finding it so they're correlating birth rates with income

00:18:17.540 levels and all that stuff and i and i thought to myself i thought about my my my uh mom and dad

00:18:24.180 and i thought about their families and all the kids they had coming over on the boat with no

00:18:28.780 money at all with nine children and i thought that's amazing how that's all changed so it's

00:18:34.240 amazing how the expectations of happiness and what people want but it was interesting because

00:18:39.340 this whole half hour show went on about with uh ladies talking about quite frankly the fact that

00:18:45.780 until they had full security they couldn't have families and i'm like well that's an interesting

00:18:52.120 way of thinking about it i understand it but quite frankly i don't know if that would be my i'll be

00:18:57.980 truth through having had multiple kids i'm not sure i ever thought about it i'll be truthfully

00:19:03.260 like and i'm not sure i ever kind of sat down and said oh i need to be stable before right

00:19:07.180 you know what i mean you know paul i have to confess the same three times yeah i don't think

00:19:11.740 i really no no i just it was kind of something i was going to do my my curiosity it was more

00:19:16.940 of a curiosity for me um you know i i wonder what it would like not to have would be like not to

00:19:22.700 have kids therefore i wanted kids therefore i had kids i didn't really overthink it i didn't kind of

00:19:27.180 sit down and do an economic impact chart and do us you know put a budget together you know what

00:19:33.820 i mean like well that wasn't in the scenario right yeah so was i happy or not i'll be truth

00:19:40.380 you know i think i've told you this prepping for the show i'm going to tell people who are in their

00:19:44.620 20s and 30s i wasn't i did not have a nice like i can't say oh wow i love my 20s i hated my 20s

00:19:52.060 did i like my 30s no i didn't like my 30s right i worked for very difficult people right and quite

00:19:58.780 frankly it made for a very tough time in a tougher industry and quite frankly i worked a lot right so

00:20:06.060 i didn't have a lot of i didn't have hardly any personal time nor did i have any recreational

00:20:11.340 time i wasn't like my friend i mentioned in the show at the gym at three i wasn't skating at three

00:20:17.420 i was working till 10 and going home sleeping two or three hours and working again

00:20:23.660 grocery shopping because i had kids at home on the weekend trying to cook for them do all my

00:20:29.180 dry cleaning laundry getting ready for the next like it was it was tumultuous right and it didn't

00:20:34.780 seem to ever get better yeah was i thinking but you know what i kind of just it was what it was

00:20:41.580 you know almost carbon copy and now as i look back as you were saying that i was like

00:20:49.260 i didn't hate any of that i guess i some of it i hated

00:20:54.300 yeah like you i worked for some very interesting people along the way they made life long and hard

00:21:01.260 days yeah i kind of just accepted i was paying my dues i think at those points in my life and

00:21:08.620 thinking what i do remember thinking is wow i have kids young i'm going to be free later on in life

00:21:15.100 i do remember having that thought yeah that i'll still be working and young enough to do something

00:21:21.740 with my life i do remember having that but the other thing is i've always had hope

00:21:26.460 i don't know about you but i've maybe it's a foolish thing still today i have a huge amount

00:21:32.220 of hope not just for humanity for myself for my family yep i think that that's what's disappearing

00:21:37.980 in a lot of ways do you have great hope liam i do but i also am very aware that a lot of my friends

00:21:45.420 and people my age don't so i i think i'm definitely an outlier in my in my group because i think a lot

00:21:51.660 of it too comes from me understanding these social issues to the to the depths that i do

00:21:57.420 and so it doesn't seem as like i mean when you understand something it's pretty hard to have

00:22:01.340 anxiety about it um but for instance you know you're talking about kids and i think that is one

00:22:07.580 of the main things that is missing between uh between people in my generation is like you know

00:22:13.020 i'm not i'm not married i don't have kids and part of that is because i have not been able to find

00:22:18.780 somebody that sees that as a goal in and of itself you're like outside of anything and so to your

00:22:25.820 point i do see this well yeah when i have this job or when i have that or you know when i when i'm

00:22:31.180 done traveling the world then i'll want to have kids right it's like it's like i don't think

00:22:35.500 think that's how this works you know what i did i traveled the world with my kids yeah you probably

00:22:40.020 did too you probably dragged them on a lot of planes with they those kids probably had an

00:22:43.940 experience that's that's the that downside of waiting right is okay well you know what you

00:22:49.600 could be experiencing that as a family and no it's not always easy and now it's not even always

00:22:55.220 possible but you're gonna just go home to your own lonely life every day until it's almost too late

00:23:04.000 you know what i mean and well and see i think part of the reason that i don't fit into that

00:23:08.980 group is because i definitely still have a very tight family and community so for instance my

00:23:14.960 neighbors are my brother and my sister we have a very large property between the three of us

00:23:19.440 i'm constantly interacting with their two kids with my family i'm around i have community

00:23:23.900 and so i don't it's it's not like i'm completely isolated in that sense like a lot of people my

00:23:29.380 age are but even that i think part of the issue is the way that even across society now that we

00:23:38.100 interpret happiness even like it's like it's this internal thing it's it's just it's inside

00:23:43.300 of you and if so you're not happy there's something going on that's wrong inside your head

00:23:47.460 and it's like no mental like what we consider as mental health is really like integration into

00:23:53.140 those different levels of family community you know region cities nations and so on but

00:23:59.460 i mean as we've seen over the last couple decades for sure like all those layers that people would

00:24:04.100 have been integrated into have fractured you know not many people see themselves as a as a canadian

00:24:10.100 working towards the betterment of canada they don't see the community that they're they're

00:24:14.260 interacting with see even there i think we're kind of expecting a lot in the world from each

00:24:20.980 other that is almost undeliverable i'll give you an example when i started in radio you know when

00:24:26.820 you start in radio back in the day you know where you go you go to leg cramp saskatchewan that's

00:24:32.500 where you go was i thrilled about that notion no but i i accepted it uh was i thrilled that it was

00:24:40.500 going to take me 10 years to get a morning show no but i could see that there was a ladder to

00:24:46.500 get there i could see that it was going to be difficult that there was going to be challenges

00:24:49.700 i still had that hope i didn't need my family to be saying you can do it although they did

00:24:57.380 i just knew that i had to do it that i was going to pay the dues that i was going to

00:25:01.460 work with some difficult people that are going to have i don't know why that did not contribute or

00:25:07.780 distinguish my happiness or extinguish my happiness i have no idea why you know why

00:25:12.340 noam you weren't getting the social reinforcement that you weren't happy right right and i think

00:25:25.860 that's the difference and i think this like these studies and everything the opposite if you tell

00:25:30.580 me you're not happy i might not be happy i mentioned i wasn't happy right but to tell you

00:25:35.220 the truth i thought i was an outlier most of the time i'm like oh everyone else seems happy it's

00:25:39.380 just me not being happy okay i'm not happy but you know there's a bunch of things going on i'll

00:25:45.540 eventually i'll be happy and i was i worked through them and i got to the point where i was

00:25:49.220 happy right but it took me for my own time frame to get there right and to do because that i

00:25:55.700 tormented myself with things i wanted to do to an extent that it made me unhappy so that was

00:26:02.020 part of my personal challenge but i wasn't also being told that i wasn't happy but today like

00:26:08.100 like when i mentioned i asked you who did that well i don't know why the u.n or whatever would

00:26:11.700 be comparing countries for happiness and then publishing it and trying because are these u.n

00:26:18.100 trying to going to try to make me happier is oxford going to try to make me happy i don't you know and

00:26:23.220 i think all these social reinforcements telling me you know i i can have it all i need to i i you

00:26:30.900 know you're not happy as you could be all those things and all then these all the to your point

00:26:36.260 all these psyop scaremongering things going on layered on it's very overwhelming right and i

00:26:42.980 think it does drive a narrative i don't know why they want to drive the narrative i mean i'm not a

00:26:48.180 tin foil hat guy but for the most part it does really make me curious why people are doing this

00:26:53.540 right when i look at i think why are people having this conversation like why you know like i don't

00:26:58.820 i don't go to my kids and say to them are you happy so right and i've never asked one of my

00:27:03.700 It's human nature, right?

00:27:05.280 I see this as incentives, too, because this is something we've done institutionally across society,

00:27:11.840 whether it be in public office, whether it be in the private workforce, whether it be in higher education.

00:27:17.580 We are rewarding these things.

00:27:19.680 So, for instance, there was a recent report that came out.

00:27:22.800 Rob Henderson, he's a social psychologist, funny enough, went to Oxford.

00:27:26.620 but he he published a great article talking about how in higher education 40 percent of students at

00:27:36.540 stanford and it's worse and in the ivy league schools 40 of students at stanford report having

00:27:43.180 a disability because think about what they have within these schools right oh you know you're

00:27:47.980 having a mental health crisis your report can be submitted two weeks later or you know days off of

00:27:54.140 work and all of this kind of stuff and then so you're creating an environment that essentially

00:27:59.340 gives people the ability to manipulate it by feigning unhappiness and then does that end up

00:28:05.660 causing it like now now i'm starting to actually become unhappy because i've seen there's an

00:28:11.020 incentive to being mentally unwell right i can i actually can see that you know okay uh philosophical

00:28:17.260 guys the dalai lama i think by the way i get corrected in the uh i don't see this i get

00:28:22.300 correct it off it makes me happy it's my happiness quotient goes up when i get corrected i think it

00:28:27.660 was the dalai lama who said something to the effect of true happiness is enjoying what you

00:28:34.860 already have right and this one another one uh john stewart mill in 1873 back when i was in high

00:28:41.500 school said this uh those only uh those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object

00:28:49.180 other than their own happiness.

00:28:51.640 That, I believe, 100%.

00:28:53.840 If you're busy with life,

00:28:55.600 if you're busy trying to find a solution,

00:28:57.680 if you're not sitting down thinking, 1.00

00:28:59.480 oh, AI is going to beat my ass, 1.00

00:29:01.880 you're going to survive and you're going to do well. 1.00

00:29:04.560 Oh, I agree. I agree.

00:29:06.400 You know what? I've got to throw another one at you.

00:29:08.040 If you're out somewhere and you're having fun

00:29:12.120 and you think to take a picture,

00:29:14.560 you're not having that much fun.

00:29:16.840 oh oh i like that one i remind my family that all the time every time we're doing something 0.99

00:29:22.600 and all of a sudden they're like let's take a picture i'm like oh you ruined the damn 0.93

00:29:25.880 we're having so much fun now we gotta you gotta stop this fun you know it's funny that you say 0.93

00:29:30.520 that i went through part of uh the way i love that i'm gonna use that uh i went through part

00:29:35.880 of the west coast one afternoon i mean it was stunning stunning stunning and i'm sorry i forgot

00:29:40.440 to take it i should have been shooting stuff exactly but it was too beautiful and i thought

00:29:45.400 to myself i won't forget this exactly it's in here it's good advice well look our generation

00:29:52.040 if you were unhappy and you said it out loud somebody would say what's your problem don't

00:29:57.240 make me unhappy exactly this generation that we're dealing with right now i think needs to realize

00:30:03.480 they're happier than they than they they can be happier than they think and i i think that's a big

00:30:07.880 downfall right here and you know it comes from doing by the way you can do stuff there's good

00:30:13.080 stuff to do out there. You'll figure it out. And by the way, for the UN, stop measuring

00:30:17.600 happiness. We don't need that. That seems a little rude. I agree. Thanks, guys. Thanks, gentlemen.

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