Happiness is a massive topic.

Where do we even begin?

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Why are our young people so unhappy?

If you look at very happy people, what are they doing differently?

What you find is they spend a lot of time with other people.

They don't spend a lot of time on screens.

They spend more time just proportionately in real life,

whether that's being present walking around outside or something.

Touching grass.

Yeah, all negative emotions really have a good evolutionary purpose.

Boredum is our cue that like, oh, I should go out and do something stimulating,

I should find something meaningful.

Whereas when we can kind of slap the screen band-aid on our boredom,

we never have to feel it long enough to find what we really want to do.

Happiness tends to have to sort of a U-shaped curve.

It starts off good when you're young and your're a kid you tend to be pretty happy and

then you get to midlife and it kind of sucks.

There's lots of research showing that perfectionism is going up.

Since the 80s to now, there are like 30 to 40 percent increases.

Level of depression right now nationally is more than 40 percent of students

report being too depressed to function most days and that number has

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