Something Is Very Wrong With Modern Life - Arthur Brooks - #1109

“but at least it's the last hour of the day. Now that part of that is sleep architecture and blue light, et cetera, et cetera. The pineal gland, melatonin, yada, yada. We all know the physiology of that. But part of that is just, just the way that you actually understand yourself at the end of your day and get ready to rest. If you're living with your partner,”

“Game over. Well, I mean, it's your pineal gland shuts off, right? No more melatonin for you. And so, which is problematic on its face, but it's also, you just, you spike your cortisol. I mean, it's bad stuff happens to you. So the phone should be in a different floor, in a closet, plugged in someplace from an hour before you go to bed until after an hour after you get up.”

“Yeah. And your tolerance, I- Yeah, exactly. That's a doom loop. I'll drink 10, 20 times a year, maybe at most now. And that means half a Corona in, I'm like, it's nice. It's like being 14 again. You know, that's cool. But- I can put away a half rack.”

“all virtues. He wrote these really beautiful books, but his, his, probably his most influential book was leisure. The basis of culture where we define culture as a serious business. It's not chilling on a beach, which is called acedia, also known as laziness or torpor. You know, it's like, I can do that for like an hour and then you don't want to run away screaming. It's the worst.”

“Do you remember Norman Vincent Peale? Does that name ring a bell? Okay. He had a very famous self-help book in the sixties called the power of positive thinking that, that sound that rings a bell, right? He was a minister at a Protestant church in New York city. And he would say every single day when he started the day, the Psalm, this is the day that the Lord has made.”