“13 percent of people have jobs they find meaningful”
“It is just the kind of jobs that people do. It is difficult to do it because it is always the same thing but somebody has to do it.”
Lost Connections really gave me a better understanding about the roots of depression. After reading I realized that there are a lot more factors that contribute to depression which I did not know about.
The most interesting thing about the book was the cause of depression from less meaningful work. When it comes to meaningful work I believed that not everybody will have a job that they enjoy. I agreed with Hari that if everybody does a job that they enjoy then society would “cease to function”. Nobody wants jobs with no meaning but I agreed with Hari when he mentioned that work becomes dead and meaningless when you have no say in it. This made me agree with Hari when he said a democratic work environment makes people’s job less depressing. Furthermore, democratic in a work environment has also been proven to be more successful.
The ideas and the experiments that were in the book really opened up my eyes. Depression is a big problem in today’s society and people are not getting better from it. The worst was that many people believed that antidepressants are the cure which is not true. Hari talked about the mentality of drug companies, materialism and the style of advertising in the world which caused these problems which shaped Western society to be more individualistic and significantly less happy.
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