Watch my new episode with Dr. Arthur Brooks

I'm constantly thinking about what I don't have and how I want to get it, you know, and it's — toxic. — So, we are made to be resentful, ungrateful, suspicious, hostile creatures. You know, there's literally more space in the brain, more tissue devoted in the lyic system to negative emotions than to positive emotions. The crisis of our time is not an enjoyment problem. The number one predictor of clinical depression and generalized anxiety today is saying, "My life feels meaningless. " If you're in the matrix all day long, you're sitting on the left side of your brain and you're not even considering questions of meaning and your life is going to be bereft of the things that really matter. That's why you're depressed. — You've spoken about these four sort of false idols — that people think will bring them the happiness. — Money, power, pleasure, and fame fundamentally. Everybody is most beguiled by one. And when they know what their weakness is, they have pure strength. — If a person comes to you and says, "I'm unhappy. " You would tell them that they could learn to be happy. — Absolutely. And here's basically how it works.