Dr. Fried Social | The Future You | Men's Health - video Dailymotion

Dr. Fried Social | The Future You | Men's Health

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00:00What I learned from my patients was that everybody,

00:04no matter what age they are, need several things.

00:08We all need to have a reason to get up in the morning.

00:11Purpose.

00:12Exactly.

00:13It doesn't matter if you're 15 or if you're 100.

00:17You have to have a reason to get up in the morning.

00:20And people who don't have that reason

00:23and don't have a place to go to,

00:25it was shown many years ago,

00:27as they get older, they get sick and die.

00:30Not the next day, but over time,

00:33they're more likely to get sick and die.

00:36It's the most deep of human needs.

00:41The other deep human need in the doing of things

00:46is that human beings are, you talked about genes,

00:49human beings are genetically encoded

00:52to need social connection.

00:55Now, my wonderful colleague, John Cassioppo,

00:57who founded the field of loneliness science,

01:03said, talked a lot about the evolutionary origins

01:07of why human beings would need that.

01:11Why should we care?

01:12And, you know, the evidence is very strong

01:15that over human history, traveling together

01:18got more accomplished, more safely,

01:22more effectively than traveling alone.

01:25Mm-hmm.