Lisa WoodruffCEO and founder, Organize 365

Women's Work: Fair Play - Redistributing the Housework Cards with Eve Rodsky - What makes you happy?

5 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Eve Rodsky argues that chasing external goals like bigger houses or more kids makes you sadder if they don't match your actual values. When people feel disconnected from what matters to them, they numb out with Netflix, scrolling, or substances instead of fixing the real problem.

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And for so long, for so long, we've been fed these messages that we need a bigger house, we need a bigger car, we need 2.5 kids to make us happy, we, we need to focus on happiness to make us happy, right? All these things. And it's actually— we found out now that focusing on happiness makes us more sad. Uh, the extrinsic— if it's not internally motivated through your own value system does not make you happy. So many people are saying, is this it? Is this what I worked so hard for? Right? And then you end up binge-watching Netflix and doom scrolling and taking edibles and drinking or whatever it is to numb the pain because we're not in touch with our internal value system. That is what I saw happening.