"Only in the present can you love.
You can't love in the past. And you can't love in the future 'cause you're not there.
“Only when you're here now can you truly love somebody.”
You can only love your husband now. When you're present, you can only love your baby's now. And the more time that you're not here now is the more love you miss. And meaning comes from love.
- Arthur Brooks.
- That is when those powerful things I have ever heard.
Coming up in this incredible part two episode with Arthur Brooks. Do you know the meaning of your life? Do you feel a true sense of purpose? Is this something you've been searching for,
but perhaps are struggling with? If so, you're not alone. Millions of people in fact describe this feeling of a growing sense of emptiness or lack of significance. And if you can relate and if you want more meaning
and fulfillment in your life, and today's episode is for you. Arthur C. Brooks is a Harvard professor, PhD social scientist, and number one best-selling author of multiple books who specializes in using
the highest levels of science and philosophy to provide people with actionable strategies to live their best lives right now. And in his brand new book, it's called The Meaning of Your Life.
He leans on cutting edge science and great philosophers to give us a blueprint that he says will help even the most skeptical person find a life of spiritual transcendence. Passionate love and true calling.
Yes, please. Arthur speaks to audiences around the world about human happiness and he's flown across country to be here in person with you and me today. I am so excited for this conversation.
And whether today you're listening for yourself or because someone you love shared this episode with you, I wanna welcome you to the Jamie Kernley Mishog podcast family. Thank you so much for being here. You haven't done this already.
Can you take a second and click the follow or subscribe button
“on the app you're listening to or watching on right now?”
It really truly means the world to me. And also, you can get more inspiration for free right now from me to you. Just join my newsletter community at Jamie KernleyMet.com. And this incredible episode today
is not just for you and me. Please share this with every single person that you know who may need some inspiration or to find meaning in their life today. Because what you're about to hear
can truly impact mine, yours, and their lives, too. Welcome, Jamie KernleyMeshog. Oprah, how have you defied the odds? Her show is unlike any I've ever done. A revelation.
When you listen, it feels like a hug or slating the shell Obama. Jamie, you are going so deep.
I have never had this in-depth conversation.
I've actually never said that out loud, too. Anybody in an interview before, you know how to get there. (laughs) Your brain and your spirit and your heart is like, "Wow, Melinda French Gates."
When I look into Jamie's eyes,
“I feel like I am on some other cosmic level with her.”
Megan, that's just obsessive. - No, I wasn't expecting that one. I could see the light around her. She's infused with light. Maria, Shriver, and never made that mistake again.
Imagine overcoming self-doubt learning to believe in yourself and trust yourself and know you are enough. Welcome to the Jamie KernleyMeshog. - Jamie KernleyMeshog, for name everybody needs Jamie KernleyMeshog.
- Jamie KernleyMeshog. - Jamie, you're so inspiring. - Jamie, KernleyMeshog. - It's really six things. And when you do these six things,
in six months, you'll eliminate your life. - Six things, in six months, and you'll be living a different life. Can you talk about, as people start to embark on this and the journey that they're on to finding meaning,
can you talk about search and presence? - Yeah, so this is one of the ways that we measure meaning in life. So of course, as behavioral scientists, we have to put some numbers on these things
and so we defined it, coherence, purpose, and significance. But how do we measure where you are in your own journey to finding meaning? And there's two dimensions to it. One is search, how much are you searching?
And number two is how close are you to understanding the meaning of your life? That's presence. And what you find is that there's kind of four kinds of people. There are some people who aren't searching
and don't have presence. These are lost in place. These are people who, you know,
they don't even know what the problem is.
They're not even asking the questions at this point. There's some people who don't have a strong sense of presence but they're searching real hard. That's very encouraging. Most people who are going to pick up this book
are going to be like, I want a better presence of meaning and I'm searching which is why I'm reading this book. That's fantastic.
There's some people who have a strong sense of presence.
Some of them are searching. I kind of have strong sense of presence, Jamie. I really feel in a strong sense of meaning in my life but I'm searching searching because I'm a searcher. I'm a total seeker.
And that sometimes is bad because that's a grass is greener and oh, look at that shiny thing over there. And there's some people who are just like really content. You know, they have a strong sense of presence and they're actually not looking for it
but that's not very many people is what I find. So this book actually has a test and the people can take to find out who they are and where they are in that process and tell them where to start their search.
Because you can't actually find something if you don't know where you are.
“- Which is so good and I think most people actually”
don't quite know where they are. - No. - I talk about so many of these topics all the time. I'm obsessed with that I love it and still reading the meaning of your life.
I'm thinking to myself, okay, I know I'm a seeker. - For sure, you're doing the show. The show is a process of seeking. - Yes, and I love it. I love it.
I've loved it forever. I remember when I was a Denny's a waitress
saving my money to go to my first Tony Robbins event.
- Did you read it? - Oh yeah. - Is he know that? - He does now. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - The wild edge, I interview me for business mastery and then I keynote and then I did a keynote on his event now 21 times and it's been a whole thing, but it's kind of wild, full full.
- Yeah, I've spoken to his events before too. There's just, they're wonderful and he's changed so many people's lives. - Yeah, as have you. And as is this book going to do.
And so, but I kind of realized through that I'm like, oh yeah, I, I'm definitely a seeker but then in terms of presence, I would give myself like a bee. - I think that I'm still,
I'm in that space of hearing like, God, what's your dream for me and all the things? - Strivers curse. - I know. - Once again, next thing, next thing, next thing.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. - I'm taking so much away from this conversation already by the way, just to share.
“Because I think that's what I really need to zone in on”
is like, let me just be with my babies and love that moment. Let me actually look at my husband in the eye. - Yeah. - Instead of us with our, like let me really make that a project of micro, let me make the micro a project.
And I think that something you shared earlier, which this is, you know, I have a lot of achievers that watch the show and a lot of people that, you know, are like, I know I've made for more and I, and if so many goals, whether they're on to per
newers or they just want to live happier
and it's sort of never, they're feeling like it's,
it's never enough or they're never enough. And it's so helpful to hear you talk about, okay, you don't have to just go, I've arrived, let me want nothing more, or that. - 'Cause you won't.
- And I'm gonna get the baby, maybe in the right here after, but not on earth. - And do you believe we always have to be rowing? - I think that, I think that people are made for progress. We really are made for progress.
It was one thing that you said is really important for people to understand. It's a very profound point that you've just made. You talked about wanting to be here now with your babies, right? So CS Lewis was a great theologian and writer.
He observed something that's really important. We tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future. And use an entrepreneur, statistically, the average person spends 30 to 50% of their time thinking about the future,
but entrepreneurs, more like 80% of the time thinking about the future. I bet you spend most of your life, Jamie, thinking about the future, like castles in the sky, right? Some people spend a lot of the time thinking about the past, you probably don't, but a lot of people do.
Spend a lot of time thinking about the past. We can time travel because our big prefrontal cortex are a big amazing human brain, the super computer of the ages, which makes it possible for us to go back in the past and live back there, go into the future,
live there and practice different things. But only in the present can you love. You can't love in the past and you can't love in the future because you're not there. Only when you're here now can you truly love somebody.
You can only love your husband now. When you're present, you can only love your babies now. And the more time that you're not here now is the more love you miss and meaning comes from love. - Arthur Brooks, this is, you know,
I feel blessed that when we have guests on the show,
I'm always focused on the person at home,
what do they want to know, what can they get out of the day? - I feel like this conversation, I'm already, I'm like, oh, this is for me, thank God, like for you that you're here today. Honestly, these are big things in my life.
- They're big things, and me too, and me too, and the thing about being in the world of behavioral science is you don't do research, you do research. I answer the questions that I need the answers to. And it's funny because people often ask me,
“you must be, 'cause you're studying happiness.”
You must be a super happy person. I'm like, no, I'm a deeply discontented person. That's why I study happiness. - Yeah. - Because I want the answers, but it turns out a lot of the other people do too.
- We're gonna talk about the four types of person and you may be in terms of happiness in a minute,
'cause I know you are, you're mad scientist, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll get-- - I'm literally a mad scientist. (laughing) - In my day job, right?
“- Which is right, which is, what you just said”
is so, so powerful, because so many of us,
we do, you know, some people do live in the past, of course, a lot of us live in the future, and then we can miss our entire lives doing that, but what you just said is that if you're living in the future or you're living in the past and in your mind,
you're not present and you cannot love. - You can't love. - Not love. So, you've no idea how that's gonna change my life, because every time I catch myself,
which to your guess is most the day, living in the future, I'm robbing myself of love. - When you're holding your baby and you're thinking about the future, it can be, I mean, I understand that you're thinking about,
I gotta get some from the supermarket, that's living in the future, and that's fine, it's normal, right? But when it's all the castles in the sky, and you've got to baby in your arms, you've got to choose. Baby in my arms, castles in the sky,
it's a pretty easy choice. - You know, I had one of my best friends out here this week, over 30 years. We met when I was waitressing a denny, she's waitressing another restaurant,
way nicer restaurant. I love denny. - Denny's lost, so great. I actually love that job, but I had her here this week, and she just flew out today, and I told her,
I'm like, I am so busy this week. I feel like I wasn't present, and I wasn't. Like I was living in the future, the whole time she was here, and I'm just having this moment right now with you,
where I'm like, I missed out on the love, all of those moments. - You didn't miss the time, that's not the unit of value. - Yeah. - People, I mean, okay, money is not the unit value, obviously,
that people say time is that's not right either.
“It's love, your life is measured in love, right?”
It's you aren't the sum of your success, you're the sum of the love in your life, and we make ourselves less. We degrade ourselves ultimately, and people, by the way, they're gonna look at your life,
and say, it's got the precious charm to existence. If only I could live like Jamie, then everything would be okay, and the whole point is that your success has nothing to do with whether or not you're gonna be a happy person on the contrary.
It has everything to do with the choices that you make in terms of the resource that you have, like everybody else on the planet. - And you know what else, Arthur? You're saying your life is measured in love.
It's so easy for us to then tell ourselves a different version of that, which is like, okay, well, I have love. I have kids that have a partner, I have great friends, but no, that doesn't mean you have love. - That means you have conditions for love.
- Yeah, if you're not present with them, if you're not, if you're living in the future all the time, which is what I do, and you're missing, it's impossible to have all that. Then you actually don't have that.
- Right, right, right, and if you're living a virtual world
“where instead of love with people in your life,”
you don't have real friends, you have virtual friends. If you don't have real friends, you have deal friends. You know, this is what a lot of successful people have. Then you're gonna be missing out on meaning because love is what actually brings the sense of meaning
to your life. So this all these disciplines. Again, your great grandfather had this all the time, because there wasn't that many opportunities to live in the future.
It was right now on pushing the plow behind the mule. - People were so much happier. - They were, it's funny, but it's actually what happened was that their brains were working the way their brains were supposed to work,
getting back to the biology of this thing. Our brains are not supposed to work the way they're being encouraged to work in our technological, causal, go-go environment. We're not at home.
We're being pushed out of our homes, and we wanna go home. - And if your life is measured in love, and you are not present, you cannot live. - Your poor.
- Your poor. - Your poor. - If your life is measured in love, and you're passing every time there's the love. - Yes.
- 'Cause you're not fully present. - Yes. - You've been poversed yourself. - Ooh, aren't they're friends?
- I feel like that is the most powerful thing.
Like that, that is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Like that is literally gonna change my life today. And I already know it's gonna change life as soon as people, because, oh my gosh, I can't even think of a single friend
a single, and I'm talking about whether they have a lot going on in their parents and their hardworking, they're getting through the day, or they have tremendous success with the world cost, tremendous success.
I don't think I know a single person, that's not, but that's barely present. - No. - I know, and the world will tell you that you'll get happier if you're not present.
The world will tell you that, because the mother nature is funny. Mother nature, God bless her, wants us to survive and pass on our genes. She doesn't care if we're happy.
She doesn't care if we find meaning. She doesn't care if we have love. And there's nothing wrong with that,
but here's the amazing thing about being human.
You can live according to your animal impulses, or you can live according to your moral aspirations.
We have a choice of living in a way
that's not just if it feels good, do it, from moment to moment. We don't have to do that, we can be free. We can manage our impulses so they don't manage us. We can be the people that we want to be. That's so freeing that so incredibly empowering,
but that sometimes means you got to fight yourself. You got to fight against these impulses, 'cause it becomes easy for the strivers who are watching us. The easiest thing is to go to the castles in the sky,
“'cause that's what they're really good at.”
It's planning the next thing. It's the business, it's the ambition, it's the exciting thing that's gonna happen next. And that's a way to distract ourselves. And that's actually kind of an addiction
to know itself, isn't it? - Yes, it is, yes it is. Woo, okay, I want to ask you about faith. - Yeah. - Actually, before I do that,
I want to ask you about with the meaning of your life of the six. What would you like to share? 'Cause the first thing everyone's gonna say is one of the six, which might be
what you have to get the book, meaning of your life, I'm dive into it.
And I love podcasts are so powerful,
conversations like this are so, so powerful. But even impacting for this show, if I were to have someone else read your book and I get the notes of it, it's so different than if I experience the book.
Right, like there's just, there's granular things. Really, like what you just said, actually like that moment is gonna change my life. There's granular things in a book that I just think you cannot get
when you listen to a podcast. Anybody's podcasts. And so I think this is so important. Grab your copy, the meaning of your life, whether you get it on audible or and listen to it
in your morning walks or during the day,
“on your car drive to work or are you grab a physical copy?”
Because there's gonna be things that speak to you, that are different than what we could possibly talk about in a podcast. But for the six, if someone's like, what are the six, what do I do?
Six in six months is gonna change my life. What would you like to share on that? Well, so you're right that when you read a book that has a number of ways to solve a problem. That's one of the reasons is very important
to give people more than one way to solve a problem in a book. If you have a one tool solution, it's gonna hit some people, it's not gonna work for other people. There's six things in here and different people are in different parts of their journey,
which means that most people are gonna read this book and it's gonna be one of these things and you say, that's the thing I needed to read. I wrote the book so that it will hit somebody where they are.
The divine has a plan for each person and puts resources into their lives. And I pray every day that what I write will be a resource to somebody that God will put my book into somebody's life and that one sentence
one chapter, one paragraph from this book. We'll meet them where they are at that particular point. And I don't know which one it is 'cause it's not in my hands. You know, it's not, it's a tool for this.
I mean, that's what I, that's my prayer is that God will use me in this particular way, right? So I think about it in terms of what's really helped me in this.
And there's one chapter, the second last chapter.
There's a conclusion that talks about how to make your life like a pilgrimage, like make your life like one walking, walking and where you're meaning will find you.
“'Cause that's what happens when you do a pilgrimage, right?”
The chapter right before that is the hardest one for me. And it's the one that I needed to write 'cause the one I needed to understand and it's about. - We need a pause for a super brief break. And while we do, take a moment to share this episode
with every single person that you know who this could inspire. Because this conversation can truly be the words and inspiration they need to hear today to keep going, to remember that they matter
and to feel less alone and more and enough, more connected, more inspired and more worthy. In life, you don't sort the level of your hopes and dreams, you stay stuck at the level of your self-worth. When you build yourself worth, you change your entire life.
And that's exactly why I wrote my new book, Worthy, how to believe you are enough and transform your life for you. If you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill, worthy is for you.
In Worthy, you'll learn proven tools and simple steps that bring life-changing results, like how to get unstuck from the things holding you back, build unshakable self-love, unlearn the lies that lead to self-doubt
and embrace the truths that wake up Worthiness, overcome limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome, achieve your hopes and dreams by believing you are Worthy of them and so much more. Are you ready to unleash your greatness
and step into the person you are born to be? Imagine a life with zero self-doubt and unshakable self-worth.
Get your copy of Worthy plus some amazing thank you bonus gifts
for you at Worthybook.com or the link in the show notes below.
Imagine what you do if you fully believed in you.
It's time to find out with Worthy,
“who you spend time around is so important”
as energy is contagious and so is self-belief. And I love to hang out with you even more especially if you can use an extra dose of inspiration, which is exactly why I've created my free weekly newsletter that's also a love letter to you.
Deliver straight to your inbox each and every Tuesday morning from me. If you haven't signed up to make sure that you get it each week, just go to jameykherlima.com to make sure you're on the list and you'll get your one-on-one with jamey weekly newsletter
and get ready to believe in you. If you're tired of hearing the bad news every single day and need some inspiration, some tips, tools, joy, and love hitting your inbox, I'm your girl. Subscribe at jameykherlima.com or in the link in the show notes.
Do you struggle with negative self-talk? Living with a constant mental narrative that you're not good enough is exhausting. I know because I spent most of my life in that habit.
The words you say to yourself about yourself are so powerful
and when you learn to take control over your self-talk, it's life-changing and I wanted to give you a free resource that I created for you if this is something that could benefit your life. It's called five ways to overcome negative self-talk
and build self-love. And it's a free how-to-guy to overcome that negative self-talk to build confidence and develop unshakable self-love so that you can dream big and keep going in the pursuit of your goals.
Don't let self-sabotaging thoughts hinder your progress any longer. It's time to rewrite the script of your life when filled with self-love, resilience, and unwavering belief.
If you're ready to take charge of your narrative, build unwavering confidence and empower yourself to persevere on the path to your dreams, you can grab your free guide to stop overthinking and learn to trust yourself at JamieCurnleema.com/resources
or click the link in the show notes below.
And now more of this incredible conversation together.
- The chapter right before that is the hardest one for me. And it's the one that I needed to write 'cause the one I needed to understand is about suffering, about suffering. And nobody, it's like, oh, good, hell, fantastic.
Let's talk about pain, it's like, no. But the truth of the matter is that many people are in a lot of pain who are watching us right now. And they're suffering a lot. And that's part of life.
It turns out that if we have the philosophy that suffering is something to be eliminated, we will eliminate the meaning for my lives. And this is important because we can't avoid suffering what we can do is we can make the goal
of trying to lower our pain all day long, all day long, all day long or we can work on the resistance to it. And here's how this works. And this is the most profound point
that I had when I was writing this book. Suffering equals pain multiplied by resistance. That's an ancient Buddhist formula. Suffering, I don't know what that is, is pain, which is acute mental or physical times your resistance
to that pain. And that means that if you can try to lower your pain but good luck. I mean, you can do a temporary thing. You can do it with drugs or you can do it with distraction.
“And by the way, that's what people are doing”
on the internet all day long. It's trying to lower their pain. Or you can lower your resistance to that pain. And lowering your resistance to that pain is accepting the fact that life has pain in it.
And here's what happens. When you find that your life has the most meaning, there's pain in it, but not that much suffering. And I've seen this in the lives of people that I was studying for this book.
I was very, very close to my mother-in-law, who lived in 93 and died a couple of years ago. I was closer to my mother-in-law than I was to my own mom, which not very many men, it's that I've said. She's a wonderful, I just loved her so much.
She lived in Barcelona for whole life. And near the end of her life, she was bedridden. And it was horrible, it was difficult. It was literally physically painful and incredibly limiting for a person who'd been vital and alive for whole life.
And what I noticed was that as her pain rose
“to her suffering fell, and I said, what's going on?”
Why is that possible? And the reason is because she stopped resisting that pain. She accepted that pain. She started spending her time with the people that she loved talking about the things
that actually mattered. She had a spirit of gratitude for all the good things
That were actually happening.
She didn't deny that she was in a lot of physical pain.
“She didn't deny that her circumstances were terrible.”
But she stopped fighting it, and this is what we actually need. Especially a lot of young people today is to understand that pain is going to come your way, but sufferings in your hands. And learning that formula is a life changer.
It's for me, boy, I've accepted a lot more things about my life in the years that I've been working on this project. My life has gotten a lot better.
Wow, I've never heard that before.
Yeah, I hadn't even thought about it in the right way. In the West, we have a tendency to say, if there's pain in my life, my job is to get rid of it. But I tell my students, by the way, I say, look, you're studying at Harvard.
If you're not sad and anxious, you need therapy. Being sad and anxious is not-- and again, I'm not against therapy in the contrary. Psychiatric care has saved the lives of people, many people in my family, as a matter of fact.
But the truth of the matter is that you can have pain and not learn and grow from it. Because you're trying to eliminate it. Or you can have pain and become a deeper, better person as a result of it.
It's really your choice.
“And that has to do with how you deal with it.”
And so that whole chapter is how the great sages and philosophers, how the greatest scientist have understood not how to get rid of pain,
but how to get rid of resistance to pain.
Mm. Faith is a huge deal in my life. I knew it's a big deal in your life as well. And I want to talk about, you know, for everyone listening, whether they have the practice
and a particular faith or or consider themselves spiritual or believe in a power greater than themselves, and when it comes to meaning, when it comes to the search for meaning, and when it comes to us feeling fulfilled and all of that, I have a couple of questions
when I'm talking about that. Can you talk about the importance of transcendence and of me to eye? Yeah, so people talk an awful lot about faith and they think immediately about religion.
Mm-hmm. And I love religion. I studied religion. You know, I've worked for many years with this holiness to Dalai Lama.
I've had many great teachers in India. Personally, I'm a practicing Catholic. I go to Mass every day, actually. I start my day that I go to the gym and I go to Mass every day.
“And when I'm home with life, 630, I went this morning”
at 630 and San Juan Capustrano at the Mission Basilica down in Orange County and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. But when I'm looking at it as a scientist, it's a different phenomenon than a correct religion. I can't assess that scientifically.
That's way above my pay grade as a behavioral scientist. What I can assess is the benefit that people actually get in their lives and why it happens. And that's transcendence. Transcendence is to transcend yourself.
Left your device is you'll spend all day long thinking of myself. Me, me, me, me, me, my stuff, my breakfast, my kids, my money, my television programs, my problems. Yeah, my back pain, whatever.
All day long is just so boring. It's just, and you know, all the dreams you had last night, you were the star and every one of them. It's just like, make a stop, right? And that's because Mother Nature has designed you
to think about yourself all the day, all day long. That's called the psychodrama, where you're the star. And each one of us is walking around thinking, me, me, me, but the research is really clear that when you can break out of the psychodrama,
you get happier. And you find the meaning of life. Only when you get perspective outside yourself, do you find the meaning of your own life? You can't see it from the inside.
It's kind of like a fish, can't feel water. It's because that's the habitat that you're swimming around in all the time. That's called the me-self. Me, me, me, me is the me-self.
And that's the mirror that you're looking at all day long. The eye-self is when you're standing outside, looking out the world, and standing in awe of the wonderful things in the world. That's when you can transcend.
Either you transcend by serving other people, you transcend by standing in awe of the great of the universe, of God, perhaps, or of the genius that is the universe, and standing in nature is a great way to do that, as a matter of fact.
But only when you do that on purpose, can you actually get these particular benefits? So I have a whole set of protocols that I put people into get out of the me-self, and sometimes it's really radical.
I mean, I had this physical therapist, who was, you know, coming back kind of hurts, and so he was working on my back.
And I said, "So if you always been,
"because you're just loving guy." He was so intuitive, he was wonderful. And I said, "If you always done this," he said, "No, no, no, before I was a fitness influencer." And I'm like, "What that?"
You know, what even is that? I mean, I know what it is, because I'm on social media, but it's like sure enough, you know, who's taking a shirt off and selling supplements and exercise programs.
And I said, "How was that?" He says, "Horrible."
Horrible.
I was so unhappy, because I was looking at myself
“in the mirror all the time, and if, you know,”
my abs aren't quite right. And he said, "I was so miserable,
"and I never ate anything I liked.
"I couldn't have normal relationships. "It was horrible." And until I figured out what I needed to do, I said, "Well, tell me, tell me, tell me." He said, "You know, I was a behavioral scientist.
"I want to know." And he says, "First, I took every mirror "out of my apartment." He says, "I got off social media. "I went back to school.
"I got rid of every mirror in my apartment." And then I, I, I showered in the dark for a year, so I couldn't see my abs. - Wow. - And I was, I was cured. He said, "I was cured."
Because I stopped looking at myself. I stopped looking at myself in the mirror of social media notifications. I stopped looking at myself in the mirror that is the physical mirror.
I was able to, to be in the me-self all the time. He didn't use that word, because he's not a psychologist. - Right. - But it was really, really important. And that's what we need to do. And the two ways to do that.
Number one are faith or philosophy, right? Number two is serving other people. Is get out of yourself and go help somebody else. And if you do those two things, you'll transcend and your life and, and again, this is not,
“you're not gonna say, "Oh, the meaning of my life is boom."”
But you're gonna know it, you're gonna find it. No, it's gonna find you. When you're in the I-self, meaning will find you. And you're in your right side of your brain. - You're in the right side of your brain.
That's, that's geographically what's going on right there. And you can't quite explain why it is that when you're no longer feeling thinking about yourself, you're feeling so happy. You know, it's funny, I've got all these experiments
where people will serve others. And, you know, they get happier, they get more peaceful, they sleep better, people think they're better looking, that when you're not thinking about yourself and you're serving other people,
people think that you're more beautiful or handsome. - Yeah. - It's crazy, right? The more you think about yourself and you're looking at yourself, the less beautiful you actually are.
- Wow. - Yeah. - Yeah. - The less beautiful and less happy. - And especially the less happy that you are, absolutely. Yeah, there's a great experiment where these guys are, they're, they're giving cheeratively or not
in front of their wives. And their wives think they're hotter if they've been giving more cheeratively to others. - I completely agree with that. - News you can use guys.
- Oh, my gosh. I tell my husband that all the time. - I do, I do, I'm like, you know how hot, 'cause he's, well, I won't even get into it. But I tell him, I'm like, you know how,
you know, you're so much hotter when you give even more, like when we're to give it. - That's why guys on first dates, they'll be like super nice to dogs and babies. They want to look like, you know, caregivers
is the way that that whole thing works because they're, they're actually in the me self-acting, but they want to look like they live in the I self, which is more transcendent, it's just more attractive with the whole way.
And you know, women want to marry guys who are more in the I self and less than the me self. There's almost nothing that women find less attractive than vanity and men. Almost nothing.
- Well, so while this, this whole new world we're in, where, you know, so much more is about me, even online. - Yeah, yeah. - Those are all mirrors, all mirrors.
And again, that's the online culture, which once again is pushing us to the left side of our brains, making meaning out of reach. - Even getting Uber reviews, even get like two ways. Can you find true meaning in your life
if you do not believe in a power greater than yourself? - That's true. - This conversation with Arthur Brooks
is so incredible, we made it into more than one part.
“If you want to dive deeper into how to truly discover”
your purpose and feel a sense of fulfillment and greater meaning in your life, you are not going to want to miss this incredible part three of our conversation with Arthur Brooks, that's coming up
in the next episode of the Jamie Kernley Michelle. - Remember this episode's not just for you and me, please share this with every single person you know because it can impact and change their life too. And if you love today's conversation,
please click the follow or subscribe button on the app that you're listening to it on or watching it on. And if you added value to your life, you could please give it a review. I would be so grateful, five stars is perfect.
And again, just share it with everyone you believe in. Maybe it's another person in your life who could benefit from it. Someone who's been searching for meaning or maybe just kind of feeling a little bit empty
and needs that boost of purpose. You can also post the episode and share it with others online in your community who just might need the words and tools and lessons in this conversation today.
You never know whose life you're meant to change
by sharing this episode. And thank you so much for joining me today. Before you go, I want to share some words with you that couldn't be more true. You right now exactly as you are are enough
and fully worthy. You're worthy of your greatest hopes, your wildest dreams and all the unconditional love in the world and it's an honor to welcome you
To each and every episode of Jamie Cranley Michelle here.
I hope you'll come as you are.
“Heal where you need, blossom what you choose.”
Journey toward your calling and stay as long as you like because you belong here. You are worthy, you are loved, you are love and I love you. And I cannot wait to join you on the next episode of the Jamie Cranley Michelle.
In life, you don't sort the level of your hopes and dreams.
You stay stuck at the level of your self-worth.
When you build your self-worth, you change your entire life. And that's exactly why I wrote my new book, worthy,
“how to believe you are enough and transform your life for you.”
If you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill, worthy is for you. In worthy, you'll learn proven tools and simple steps that bring life-changing results, like how to get unstuck from the things holding you back.
Build unshakenable self-love. Unlearn the lies that lead to self-doubt and embrace the truths that wake up worthiness. Overcome limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome, achieve your hopes and dreams by believing you are worthy of them
and so much more. Are you ready to unleash your greatness and step into the person you are born to be? Imagine a life with zero self-doubt an unshakenable self-worth.
Get your copy of worthy plus some amazing thank you bonus gifts
for you at worthybook.com or the link in the show notes below. Imagine what you do if you fully believed in you. It's time to find out with worthy.
“Who you spend time around is so important as energy”
is contagious and so is self-belief. And I'd love to hang out with you even more especially if you can use an extra dose of inspiration, which is exactly why I've created my free weekly newsletter that's also a love letter to you
delivered straight to your inbox from me. If you haven't signed up to make sure that you get it each week, just go to JamieCurnlima.com to make sure you're on the list and you'll get your one-on-one with Jamie Weekly newsletter and get ready to believe in you.
If you're tired of hearing the bad news every single day and need some inspiration, some tips, tools, joy, and love hitting your inbox, I'm your girl. Subscribe at JamieCurnlima.com or in the link in the show notes. And please note, I'm not a licensed therapist
and this podcast is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional.
