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It is very difficult to have full economic development without about 5000-kilowatt hours per capita for electricity. The UK has about per capita electricity generation for a developed nation at about 4500-kilowatt hours per person. This electricity generation needs to be adjusted higher if the country is a major importer. A major importing nation is bringing in goods and services that require a lot of electricity to be generated from the exporting nation. The developed countries that are not using much electricity are often : importing heavy energy goods have good climates that need less heating in winter have a
Depressed and this anxious. data suggests that over the years, people have been asking for more and more mental health at colleges. why do you think this is happening? i don t know. i think there are a number of different things at work. my sense is that colleges are often prioritizing the kinds of things that science suggests aren t very good for well-being. overfocused on grades, future focused about what kind of job they re going to get later, even at a place at yale where most of them are going to get good jobs. those are not the kinds of things that promote well-being. it comes from being in the moment, social connection, counting your blessings and not worrying about the things in the future. when you talk about the social connections and social interaction and all the research suggests actual physical social interaction is very useful in giving people a sense of well-being. it seems to me that particularly for younger generation, they live in a world of social media intera
it s also activating another thing we know from the research that can be problematic, which is our social comparison. our mind is really good at picking out a reference point of who we should compare ourselves to. what should our salary be, how good should we look? we compare ourselves often in a bad way. and i think social media allows us for so much more kinds of comparisons that make us feel bad about ourselves on these different dimensions, attractiveness, wealth levels. for our college students, the grades they re getting. they talk about getting good grades. nobody talks about bad grades. increasing the number of social comparisons that happen on a daily basis and that s not good for well-being. in the course, what do you try to give what s the message you try to give about what does lead to the good life, what does lead to happiness? the first part of the message is that the sad thing that the science tells us is that our minds lie to us all the time. we miswant things.
Interactions. do you think that plays a role? i think it s no coincidence that these kinds of mental health issues are coming up in this age where technology is pulling away the kind of normal social interaction we have. and that s true on social media, where i think people think they re getting social connection out of scrolling their instagram feed but haven t talked to a live person or made a real social connection. it s also all kinds of other tech. we don t talk to our cab driver and explain where we re going, because we ve punched it into uber. we don t talk to the checkout clerk. we scan it on our own. research suggests it s those simple social connections, talking to the barista at the coffee shop or the person on the street, that can bump up well-being much more than we forecast. i think about the experience of dating. you used to go to a bar, you meet someone, and now, of course, you look at an app. that s correct. and evaluate somebody on very superficial criteria an
Students well if they re this depressed and this anxious. data suggests that over the years, people have been asking for more and more mental health at colleges. why do you think this is happening? i don t know. i think there are a number of different things at work. my sense is that colleges are often prioritizing the kinds of things that science suggests aren t very good for well-being. overfocused on grades, future focused about what kind of job they re going to get later, even at a place at yale where most of them are going to get good jobs. those are not the kinds of things that promote well-being. it comes from being in the moment, social connection, counting your blessings and not worrying about the things in the future. when you talk about the social connections and social interaction and all the research suggests actual physical social interaction is very useful in giving people a sense of well-being. it seems to me that particularly for younger generation, they live in