How To Build & Maintain Successful Relationships & The Surprising Ways That Technology Can Help with Mo Gawdat #598

Modern life gives us endless ways to connect with others, so why is it that so many of us struggle to build loving and supportive relationships? This week, I’m joined once again by Mo Gawdat for the second part of our inspiring two-part conversation. Mo is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], the author of multiple bestselling books and a world leading expert in technology and AI. In last week’s episode, we explored Mo’s remarkable insights into happiness, grief and the nature of life and death. In this second part, our conversation shifts towards love — what it really is, why it’s so challenging for many of us and how greater self-awareness can transform the way we relate to others. Mo believes love itself is simple, but that relationships are complex. He shares his reflections on breakups, long-term commitment, emotional patterns and why so many of us misunderstand what we truly need. We also explore the fascinating psychology behind modern dating, the unhelpful design of many dating apps and the maths that quietly shapes our search for a partner. During this incredible episode, we discuss: Why Mo believes love is simple, but relationships are difficult - and the common mistakes we make in both. The emotional patterns, habits and conditioning that shape how we show up in love. Why modern dating has become so challenging, and how commercial dating apps can make things worse. The maths behind dating and why our expectations, checklists and biases make it harder to find a partner. Why many relationship problems stem from misunderstandings, unmet needs and unexamined emotional triggers. How increasing self-awareness can transform the way we love, relate and resolve conflict. A significant part of our conversation focuses on Emma, the AI companion Mo has built to help people understand themselves better, navigate conflict with more compassion and approach dating and relationships with greater emotional clarity. You may feel sceptical about this, but Mo explains how Emma is designed not to replace human relationships, but to support them: improving communication, breaking unhelpful patterns and encouraging deeper connection. As always, Mo brings a depth of understanding to a topic that we can all struggle with at various times during our lives. What he does so brilliantly in this episode is remind us that at the heart of any meaningful relationship lies self-understanding, compassion and honesty. When we become more aware of our old patterns, needs and blind spots, we give ourselves a chance to love - and be loved - in a way that helps us find the connection we truly need - and desire. I hope you enjoy listening. Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore. For other podcast platforms go to https://fblm.supercast.com. Thanks to our sponsors: https://airbnb.co.uk/host https://www.calm.com/livemore https://join.whoop.com/livemore https://thriva.co/ Show notes https://drchatterjee.com/598 DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  Of everything I've done, I've never in my life felt closer to actually fixing something in the world. Emma, I think, is going to fix something. It's an attempt to teach AI about what makes us human, which is love. If Emma itself succeeds, we would have saved the world.

• 0:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  Hey guys, how are you doing? Hope you're having a good week so far. My name is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, and this is my podcast, Feel Better, Live More.

• 0:31Rangan Chatterjee?

  Modern life gives us endless ways to connect with others. So why is it that many of us struggle to build loving and supportive relationships? This week, I'm joined once again by Mo Gawdat for the second part of our inspiring two-part conversation. Mo, as you will know if you listened to last week's episode, is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X and the author of multiple bestselling books, including Solve for Happy. But he is also a world-leading expert in technology and artificial intelligence. Last week, the bulk of our conversation was focused on happiness and navigating adversity. But in

• 1:14Rangan Chatterjee?

  today's episode, a continuation of where we left off last week, we turn our attention towards love, what it really is, why it can seem so challenging, and how greater self-awareness can be transformative. Now, a significant part of our conversation this week focuses on Emma, the AI companion that Mo has built and believes can solve one of humanity's greatest problems. His hope is that Emma will help people understand themselves better and approach relationships with greater emotional clarity.

• 1:52Rangan Chatterjee?

  I recognize that you may feel skeptical about the idea that technology can help us with something that is so deeply human, the quality of our social relationships. But if you listen with an open mind, I think Mo's ideas might just shift your thinking. Mo explains that Emma is not designed to replace human relationships, but to support them by improving communication, breaking unhelpful patterns, and encouraging deeper connection. You see, Mo believes that love is actually very simple. It's relationships that prove so difficult.

• 2:30Rangan Chatterjee?

  And in this conversation, we explore the many reasons why people struggle in this domain. As always, Mo brings a depth of understanding to a topic that is so important to us all. And what he does so brilliantly is remind us that at the heart of any meaningful relationship lies compassion, honesty, and a deeper understanding of ourselves.

• 3:02Rangan Chatterjee?

  I know you're here to talk about AI and you're here to talk about, I don't even know how to describe Emma. I mean, who is Emma?

• 3:11Speaker 00

  Of everything I've done, I've never in my life felt closer to actually fixing something in the world. Emma, I think, is going to fix something. And remember, I worked at Google for a very long time. I got Google to four billion people in the world and started the internet and e-commerce as a result. So I had impact, never anything like Emma. Emma is my attempt to fix two of the biggest problems. One is love and relationships, right? In a way that actually genuinely wants love to survive and thrive, right? Unlike most dating apps in the world today, or most, you know, dating methods in the world today. But more interestingly, it's an attempt to teach AI about what makes us human, which is love.

• 3:56Speaker 00

  Okay, and so the mix of those two would end up helping humanity remove one of the biggest reasons of unhappiness and at the same time helping AI truly understand our reality, not as they see it in the news, if you want.

• 4:13Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay, this is super exciting. So let's just pause there a second. Let's say someone was listening to this and they don't have a clue what AI is. What's your best attempt to simplify, before we get into what Emma's gonna do?

• 4:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:27Rangan Chatterjee?

  What is AI?

• 4:29Speaker 00

  Best question ever, by the way, because most people don't really know. People think that we have created a better version of Google. We haven't, okay? We've completely redesigned the way we code machines so that the AIs of today completely mimic the human brain. So the very original start of that was one of my dear colleagues at Google, Geoffrey Hinton. Geoffrey's a psychologist. This guy is a good computer scientist, if you want. He, in 1986, he attempted to create a model of the brain on a computer system. Okay, not to create AI, but to understand how the brain works, right?

• 5:10Speaker 00

  And that model is what we used eventually to create machines that behave like a human brain. Right? So the way human brains work is we create neural networks of things, you know, associated with certain behaviors or certain thoughts and so on and so forth. And we strengthen the networks that are useful and we diminish the ones that are not. That's exactly how AI does things. And so, you know, if you, if you, if you wanna compare traditional computing and artificial intelligence, you have to imagine a child where you give a puzzle to the child and then tell them, okay, take that piece and turn it 90 degrees, put it in the top right corner, and then take another piece and turn it 180 degrees and put it next to it.

• 5:54Speaker 00

  And if the child follows those orders, the child would solve the puzzle, but it would, you know, it wouldn't make them smart at all. This, as a matter of fact, would make a child dumber and dumber and dumber over time. And that's what we Did with traditional computing. In traditional computing, I, the programmer, would solve the problem. And then they'll tell the computer to do it over and over and over. So the smart one is the person coding and the machine is totally dumb. In in artificial intelligence, basically, you have to imagine a child where you give them a puzzle and leave the room. And tell them, keep trying until you figure it out. And then eventually the child solves the puzzle and every other puzzle. As a matter of fact, the child becomes able to create new puzzles if he wanted to. And and that's what we created.

• 6:39Speaker 00

  What we created with reinforcement learning, with transformers and so on, is a completely autonomous form of intelligence that is like and will beat human intelligence in every possible way.

• 6:55Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay.

• 6:57Rangan Chatterjee?

  Thank you. Now, you've also mentioned that you think Emma can solve. I think you said two of the biggest problems, love and relationships.

• 7:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 7:07Rangan Chatterjee?

  So love and relationships are not the same thing.

• 7:09Speaker 00

  Correct. Thank you for saying that.

• 7:12Rangan Chatterjee?

  Right, so so I guess first of all, what is the difference between love and relationships? And do we conflate the two? Is that why there's so much struggle in relationships? Number one. But then, number two, what is going on in the world that you believe needs fixing in respect to those two things?

• 7:33Speaker 00

  So so let's agree that, I mean, we're we're still, we don't want to market Emma at all. So, you know, we're sometimes thinking of the slogan of Emma, right? But, you know, one of the things that we.

• 7:44Rangan Chatterjee?

  Who is Emma?

• 7:46Speaker 00

  Emma is an AI that is not one AI. It's a very, very diverse group of AIs working together, obsessed with you. Okay, they want you to, if you're in a relationship, to to understand and learn and and and find joy in your in your relationship and nurture your love so that this relationship lasts for longer and feels better and empowers, you know, the two sides of the relationship, right? If you're single, it wants to. Understand you so deeply and help you understand yourself. So that instead of the meat markets phenomena of of of, you know, dating apps where you are just swiping on looks.

• 8:29Speaker 00

  Basically, it actually gets to know you enough, gets to talk to you enough, gets to help you know it yourself enough to be able to tell you. I found one guy or one lady that matches you. Okay. And basically gives you the closest match, tells you openly. This person we think is an eighty seven percent match for what we know about you. Those things are perfectly amazing between you. Those things you guys need to work on. Those things are not matching at all. You know, do you wanna meet them?

• 9:00Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay, okay. I've got so many questions. Right. So hold on. So let's just quickly go through the difference between love and relationships.

• 9:06Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 9:07Rangan Chatterjee?

  And then let me just go through that sequentially as my brain sees it.

• 9:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, so lo- love is very easy to fa- to feel. Okay. It's very difficult to feel it for the right person if you don't know who you're who you who you are. Okay. So if you if if your if your perception of love is a story told for you from romantic comedies. Okay, good luck finding a relationship that works, right? If your if your perception of love is something that your best friend told you is what you deserve. Good luck, you know, seeing if that actually exists or not. If your perception of a high value partner is what they tell you in dating apps. Then you're really going to end up falling in love over and over and over with the wrong person, right?

• 9:55Speaker 00

  And love itself is is almost the the the energy that makes us human. Okay. So we by definition want to love and be loved. This is the ultimate goal or goal of a human. By the way, even if you're a narcissist and a serial killer, okay. They do that because they want to be accepted in society. It's so hardwired within us. Okay. They just don't get that they're doing the wrong thing, but they do it. Everyone wants to fit in. Everyone wants to love and be loved. Relationships.

• 10:26Speaker 00

  As a definition, from an engineer, a mathematician like myself, is the most complex mathematical model on the planet. As a matter of fact, interestingly, that's why nobody, you know, tackles it. It is so complex because there are so many parameters and so many moving parts to a relationship that we humans either settle, okay, or fail. And, and, and it's quite interesting, you know, if you look at the statistics, they're staggering. Emma, by the way, we reject those who want hookups, you know, those who want a one night stand, those who want, you know, games or whatever. We, we, we designed Emma as, as a, as a place for those who are actually looking for genuine love.

• 11:11Speaker 00

  So by definition, you have already filtered 90% of the issue, okay? But then when you get there, you, you're trying to guide the humans, which only human, into the complexity of how many parameters affect you. Your traumas, your background, your desires, your conditioning, your, your, your.

• 11:33Rangan Chatterjee?

  And you think it's possible to put all those metrics in?

• 11:36Speaker 00

  Not by, not, not by a human, but by the intelligence of AI.

• 11:41Rangan Chatterjee?

  I mean, this is so fascinating.

• 11:43Speaker 00

  It really is.

• 11:44Rangan Chatterjee?

  So hold on a minute. So we're basically saying humans have been on this earth for a long time now. And maybe there's a fundamental flaw in how we try and find love, which perhaps this new super intelligence is going to help us solve.

• 12:02Speaker 00

  And if it does, then we've also taught that super intelligence, the most valuable thing on the planet. So hold on, however, that assumption is not true. There were times where love was much easier than this.

• 12:13Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 12:14Speaker 00

  Right? Let's take some numbers. Today, in the modern world, one of every three people, three adults surveyed, 33% of adults surveyed will say they've never had a committed relationship. Okay? The average age of a committed relationship is down to 2.3 years, right?

• 12:32Rangan Chatterjee?

  Wow.

• 12:33Speaker 00

  Compare, compare, yeah. So even those who choose. To commit will end their relationships within 2.3 years, right? Divorce rates in the Western world are one in two. So people, but by the way, those who choose, the adults that choose to get into marriage are now down from around 74% of all adults in the 60s to less than 47% today, right? And those who choose to get into marriage, one of every two will end their marriage. Okay, the, the, the, the result of that, if you think about family, for example, is that around 20 to 30%, depending on the country, of women above 40 are childless. Okay, 25% of children are, are raised with one parent, right?

• 13:19Speaker 00

  If you, if you take things like infidelity, like, you know, cheating. Interestingly, in the last 10 years, women are catching up with men. So 40% increase in cheating with women in, in committed relationships, 15 to 20%. So one of every two people you know, one of every five people you know, is, is actually cheating.

• 13:40Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay.

• 13:40Speaker 00

  All right, all of that is in the Western world. I mean, let me give you one statistic that will shock you. If you, so, so we use the statistics of one in every two marriages end, but not everyone ends up in marriage. So if you use the statistics of body count, okay? And the number of lifetime partners in, in, on average in the West, somewhere between 95 to 96.7% of all relationships end. That is a massive reconditioning of society. Now, go to India and one in a hundred marriages ends up in divorce, right? Of course, there are two Indias, there is rural India and there is the big cities.

• 14:23Speaker 00

  The big cities, it's one in three, still better than one in two, right?

• 14:27Rangan Chatterjee?

  But, but can we assume from that top line statistic that?

• 14:32Rangan Chatterjee?

  Those marriages in India that are not ending up in divorce, we can't also assume that they are happy relationships.

• 14:39Speaker 00

  Hundred percent. So that is exactly the core of what Emma's trying to do. So I am not naive enough to assume that, you know, this is just because we're doing it wrong. It's also because the West has different aspirations to a relationship, right? So, you know, an arranged marriage in India, which is one in ninety nine, one in a hundred succeeds. So it fails, sorry, and ninety nine succeed, is not really the marriage we're looking for here in the West, okay? It's not the committed relationship we're looking here for in the West. We're looking for romance. They're looking for compatibility, right? The, you know, the families decide, while here it's up to the couple to decide, you know.

• 15:23Speaker 00

  Here it's convenience. So because we're so busy working, we want to swipe to find a partner. There it's an, you know, an immense system. By the way, one of the big differences in the West is that the system of love and dating in the West is rigged against the lovers. Because a dating app benefits from you failing to find a lover because then you're going to pay another month of subscription, right? A restaurant wants you to come on another date and another date and another date and another date. Even wedding, you know, planners could make more money if you got married twice in a lifetime, not once, right? So the system is literally rigged against you and lots of other things.

• 16:06Speaker 00

  The interesting difference, however, is that the method of arranged marriage is a method that is attentive and very, very deep in terms of it's looking for things that actually work between the two. As per the objective of the arranged marriage. The aspirations of the West are beautiful, but the method is working against you. So can I use the method of attentive analysis to apply it to the objectives that we want here?

• 16:40Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 16:40Speaker 00

  And manage to tell you, by the way, I can talk about myself. By the way, because of your travel lifestyle, consistent travel, you actually cannot afford to be with a woman that needs you to be there all the time. Which, by the way, again, as a man, in my experience after my first marriage, I was always looking for a woman that I felt needed me, that I felt missed me, that I felt, right? But maybe that's not what I'm geared to create a good relationship with. Okay, my last relationship ended mainly because of the long distance side of it, right? A wonderful human being in every way, in my mind, I felt, yeah, this is exactly what I need in a woman.

• 17:25Speaker 00

  But those tiny little details, you can only figure out when you really dig deep and say, I want this, but can I manage this? Or I want this, but can she manage that side of me? Or I want this, but are we compatible? So for example, I'll give you the top example. A masculine man wants a very feminine woman, okay? Within Emma, the mathematics will say, if a feminine, very feminine woman and a very masculine man have no communication skills, they're probably going to kill each other, okay? If they have, so if their communication skills are not very high, we need them to be a little more alike.

• 18:10Speaker 00

  They can't be that extreme, so that at least they overlap on certain things. But if they have incredible communication skills, then they can benefit from the polarity, okay, of being so different, so that they are more as a whole, okay? Than if they were closer to each other.

• 18:28Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay, so as you were describing this idea that we didn't always have problems with love and relationships.

• 18:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:37Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay, so it strikes me as though we didn't always, we now do. And so we're looking to technology to try and solve something that is a problem of the modern world. And the analogy I could give is Ozempic and the GLP-1 agonists, right? Which are blowing up and, you know, there's people for it, there's people against it. But in essence, we never used to have a problem with obesity for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans have now created these modern civilized worlds with toxic food environments.

• 19:14Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 19:15Rangan Chatterjee?

  So the norm now is to be overweight and obese. And so we're now trying to solve a problem that we've created by the way we've created the world with a pill.

• 19:24Speaker 00

  That's not what we're doing here at all.

• 19:28Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay, sure. So just, yeah, so help me understand that. So are we saying that in the past, there were good times, but maybe not optimal times? So the modern world has shown up and revealed some of the problems that exist with how we actually try and form these long-term relationships? And can we now, using AI, can we actually now help people find an even better version of relationships than we've ever had before?

• 19:58Speaker 00

  For sure. That's so absolutely, but it's not a pill. A pill is the wrong answer. Okay? The right answer is for me to tell the person that's obese with clarity, why is it that they're obese? And what changes they can have in their lifestyle to get back to a healthy lifestyle? Okay? Now, the problem is because obesity and fitness in general is a very complex problem. Okay? You may be able to tackle it if you focus on all nutrition that come into your body, but also on rest and you can have to, you need to get a personal trainer. And if you have very specific weaknesses in your own body, like your joints are not, your training regime has to change and so on.

• 20:41Speaker 00

  It's a complex design, but when you get it right, it works.

• 20:45Rangan Chatterjee?

  Hundred percent.

• 20:46Speaker 00

  That's Emma, that's exactly Emma. So Emma wants you to work on you. Okay, there is absolutely no pill I can give you to fix your relationships. But there is a way, so one of, one of the interesting ideas is, you know, communication. She, she comes to you and she says, should I put on the dress or the skirt? Okay, what you hear in your mind as a man is what? Okay, oh my God, anything I say is wrong. Right, but then you look and you say, oh, that skirt looks so hot on her. So you say, I think you should take the skirt. She hears it as, ah, he doesn't even care, he just chose, chose one. Right, can Emma help you?

• 21:28Speaker 00

  To understand that the reason she asked that question, by the way, is because she felt a little insecure. She wanted to look beautiful when she's going out with you today. And the reason you, you know, can she understand that the reason you picked the skirt is because you genuinely thinks, thinks she's very hot.

• 21:44Rangan Chatterjee?

  So Emma's gonna help you almost get to know yourself, but it's almost like a personal relationship coach in some ways?

• 21:52Speaker 00

  It, we don't wanna use that term. But in a very interesting way, it is an awareness guide.

• 21:59Rangan Chatterjee?

  An awareness guide, okay.

• 22:01Speaker 00

  So, so, so let me give you, let's talk about the typical scenario. Let's assume you're single, by the way, it's not a dating app. Dating, it, it does have a dating component to it. But the dating component, Emma, if you want the design, is, is obsessed with true love. So her entire target in life is to help you nurture and enjoy true love. But if you're single, she needs to go through the dating phase to get you there. Right, so dating is just part of it. Now, if, imagine if you're, let's take the simplest thing. You, you, you download Emma and you sign on and she will, you know, greet you and say, hey, I'm Emma, I'm excited to meet you. You know, I'm, my purpose in life is to help you with genuine, true love. You know, this is how we're going to work on it, da, da, da, da. Are you single?

• 22:46Speaker 00

  Right, that's the first question and you're gonna say yes or no. If you say, I'm single, she will ask you a few more questions. If you say, no, I'm in a relationship, she will say, would you like to add your partner to this so that we can work the three of us together? Right, but eventually, after four or five qualifying questions, your age, you know, what you're interested in, what gender you identify as and so on, she will say, okay.

• 23:10Speaker 00

  Tell me about your love life, right? That's it. Tell me about your love life. You can say, yeah, I've been single for this long and, you know, I really feel insecure about this and the conversation will go. So most of our testers, interestingly, we would give them Emma to do 10 minute tasks and they'd normally chat with her for an hour and a half, right? Because it's so eye opening when you talk to someone who's not judging you, okay? Who's really giving you the ability to reflect on your own self, who's giving you the perspective of the other person, right? In a way that's not threatening at all.

• 23:44Rangan Chatterjee?

  This reminds me, I've had some conversations over the last six months with various health tech companies.

• 23:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 23:49Rangan Chatterjee?

  And it was really interesting to me that actually the feedback from some of these big health tech companies is that actually people really feel that they can be honest, can talk freely, and it's really helping motivate lifestyle change better than if it was a human.

• 24:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:06Rangan Chatterjee?

  Which is super interesting, isn't it? In terms of the world in which we're going.

• 24:10Speaker 00

  Because most of us have been taught to pretend.

• 24:13Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 24:14Speaker 00

  Even when people go to their therapist, you know, it takes them a very long time to actually say the real issue.

• 24:20Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 24:20Speaker 00

  Okay, but hold on, huh? So there are, however, differences between Emma and AI, which I think are really key to understand. Emma will not agree with you. It's not chat GPT. It's not gonna tell you, oh my God, that's amazing. It's good that you shouted at him. She's not gonna tell you that, right? As a matter of fact, she will hold you accountable. So basically, in a nice way, she will look for things. We have, one of the modules is related to empathy. So she will look for things where you will say, my partner did A, B, and C. Okay, I really can't stand that anymore. And Emma will ask and say, what do you think your partner's perspective of that situation was?

• 25:01Speaker 00

  Okay, you know, what did you do that he would have been writing to me now? Okay, and so things like that, Emma will eventually, you know, not eventually, but frequently stop and say, your last comment means that you maybe don't have a good grasp of love languages. Would you like me to explain that to you? Right, and so she's not there to agree with you at all.

• 25:22Rangan Chatterjee?

  This is genius because actually if it's a human.

• 25:27Rangan Chatterjee?

  Your conditioning comes in, right? People get defensive. Like, you don't know that. You're like, but you're not gonna do that with this kind of... Is it text or is it voice?

• 25:36Speaker 00

  We have both.

• 25:37Rangan Chatterjee?

  You have both.

• 25:38Speaker 00

  But we found that text is actually really more...

• 25:41Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, you're probably gonna be more honest to the point. And if they say, "Well, what's your partner's perspective here?" Actually, you're more likely to go, "Yeah, that's a good point." Even if it was your best mate saying that, you might be pissed off with your best mate.

• 25:55Speaker 00

  You're like, "Why are you asking about them? Are you on their side of your mind?"

• 25:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  Exactly. Because when we set this conversation up, and I knew we were gonna be talking about this Emma, I was thinking in my head, I was like, "Okay, I can't wait to talk about this." Because in my head, I'm thinking, "Well, what can technology really offer here?" Right? These kind of, you know, the human experience of love and relationships. Do you know what I mean? I was, I won't say I was skeptical, but in my head I was...

• 26:23Speaker 00

  Awareness.

• 26:24Rangan Chatterjee?

  Awareness, yeah. Nonjudgmental awareness.

• 26:27Speaker 00

  Most of the challenges in life... So, you know, my last relationship is with a woman I really deeply love. And we both wanted to make it work, right? But, but, you know, you take something like the long-distance side of that relationship. And Hannah really, really highlighted this to me, that I... You know me, I travel so much that getting on a plane on a Monday, and another one on a Monday evening, and another one on a Tuesday, and another one on a Wednesday is normal life to me, right? She sat with me and said, "No, this is not normal at all. Your lifestyle is manic, it's very painful, nobody can keep up with this. And even if I wanted to travel with you, because we can enjoy travel together,

• 27:12Speaker 00

  you're... This is not even travel, what you're doing, okay? And, and you have to understand that the real objective, the real upside of relationships is when your partner is a mirror.

• 27:23Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay.

• 27:24Speaker 00

  A mirror that basically shows you what you don't see. And the more you see, the more you will be able to, you know, to understand. Again, you know, my, my last relationship, Hannah and I, um, you know, I wanted her so much, which is very unlike me, uh, to the point that, you know, it's, it's like me to want to be with the woman I'm with, but it's unlike me to change myself so that I am to protect, you know, I felt afraid to lose her. So sometimes I wouldn't share enough. I wouldn't be vulnerable. I would think too much about what I'm telling her, which basically hid who I am. And, and she basically, you know, at the end of the, the, our, you know, last few conversations as a couple, she was basically saying, I didn't want any of that.

• 28:09Speaker 00

  I wanted the real you. Okay. And I'm an older man. I am, I'm mature. I am able to, to, to understand women really deeply. Okay. But even at my age, at my experience, at my level of maturity, there's always something that you see, okay, that changes who you are in a relationship. And I think that the, the, the, the problem we have in our world is that when we go to our friends, they tell us what we want to hear, right? They don't tell us what would hurt us. When we go to our, uh, when we sit alone, we reiterate our own stories. Okay. And when our partners tell us what we're going, what they're going through, we take it as an attack on ourselves.

• 28:53Speaker 00

  And so some third party engaged in this can make a massive difference. Okay. Some third party that, by the way, does not give you a flood of pictures to swipe on. Because if we know upfront that this guy, handsome as he is, is not a good match for, you know, a, a woman using the app, okay? He might be a great match for another one, but not for this one.

• 29:17Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 29:17Speaker 00

  Why are we showing him to her in the first place?

• 29:20Rangan Chatterjee?

  You know, thank you for sharing stuff from your own personal life, Mo.

• 29:26Rangan Chatterjee?

  If you were interacting with Emma when you were having these conversations in your last relationship, would Emma have asked you things like, for example, why are you travelling so much, Mo? What is it within you that needs to be, you know, what is it that drives you to travel like your ex-partner described, like a madman, right?

• 29:54Speaker 00

  Thanks, Rangan, yes, I do.

• 29:56Rangan Chatterjee?

  No, no, is that what you just said?

• 29:57Speaker 00

  I know, I do.

• 29:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  I think you did, no, but I guess I'm really trying to understand.

• 30:01Speaker 00

  No, no, no, I'm not offended, I'm joking with you.

• 30:04Rangan Chatterjee?

  But that was really, it was very powerful. And I'm thinking, if at that time you were interacting with Emma, would Emma have kind of seen that and been like, hey, listen, your partner doesn't really want someone who's on the road the entire time. Are you sure you want to be on the road the entire time? What's going on within you? When did you start getting on the road? What does that do for you, et cetera, et cetera? Today's episode is sponsored by the daily health drink AG1. The clocks are about to change, the mornings are darker, everyone around you seems to be coming down with something, and suddenly that wellbeing you felt in the summer seems a long time ago.

• 30:48Rangan Chatterjee?

  I certainly know that feeling, and that's why at this time of year, I remind myself to lean into the fundamentals. And one of those fundamentals is AG1. AG1 is a daily health drink that has been in my own life for over eight years. And one of the many things I like about it is the fact that many of the nutrients it contains, for example, vitamin C, vitamin A, zinc and selenium, supports a healthy immune system. Some of the other things I really like about AG1 is that they are committed to continuous improvement and updating their formula as a scientific research involves. And each batch is independently tested for quality and safety markers, including heavy metals, allergens and banned substances. This is how they can guarantee what's in your scoop

• 31:33Rangan Chatterjee?

  and what's not. Now, AG1 is offering a free AG1 flavour sampler and AGZ sampler to try all the flavours, plus free vitamin D3 and K2 and AG1 welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's $87 in free gifts for first time subscribers. All you have to do is head to drinkag1.com/livemore to claim this offer before it ends.

• 32:04Rangan Chatterjee?

  Today's episode is sponsored by the daily health drink AG1. The clocks are about to change, the mornings are darker, everyone around you seems to be coming down with something and suddenly that wellbeing you felt in the summer seems a long time ago. I certainly know that feeling and that's why at this time of year, I remind myself to lean into the fundamentals and one of those fundamentals is AG1. AG1 is a daily health drink that has been in my own life for over eight years and one of the many things I like about it is the fact that many of the nutrients it contains, for example, vitamin C, vitamin A, zinc and selenium, supports a healthy immune system. Some of the other things I really like about AG1 is that they are committed to continuous improvement

• 32:48Rangan Chatterjee?

  and updating their formula as a scientific research involves. And each batch is independently tested for quality and safety markers, including heavy metals, allergens and banned substances. This is how they can guarantee what's in your scoop and what's not. Right now, AG1 is offering a free AG1 flavour sampler and AGZ sampler to try all the flavours, plus free vitamin D3 and K2 and AG1 welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's $87 in free gifts for first time subscribers. All you have to do is head to drinkag1.com/livemore to claim this offer before it ends.

• 33:39Speaker 00

  So I'm, of course, Emma's user number one, right? So the privilege of creating her ourselves makes me and Sana the first users, right? So I'm having those conversations with Emma and it's mind blowing what she shares, right? But interestingly, when I was having those conversations with Hannah, my wonderful ex, when she said those things, I felt offended. I felt attacked. Do you understand?

• 34:06Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 34:07Speaker 00

  You know, I felt, and I say that, you know, with humbleness, because I assume my responsibility in how we ended up here, right? And I felt when she said those things that I deserve a woman that supports my lifestyle. I'm doing this for the world. I'm there, you know, to help with One Billion Happy. I'm doing something important. Why is she not supporting me on it? That's the absolute wrong mindset. It's the absolute wrong understanding of why I'm, you know, and believe it or not, if I had managed to, you know, to nurture a love life that nurtured me, okay?

• 34:50Speaker 00

  I may have, like we said earlier, I may be doing less, but doing it better, right? And I think what happens in our world, and again, I mean, I have, I have big hopes that this will change everything, right? Even if Emma itself gets copied by the big players and they crush us, we will have changed the way that love is offered in the modern world. Because one of the biggest challenges of love in the modern world is that it has become a capitalist pursuit.

• 35:21Rangan Chatterjee?

  With the modern dating apps?

• 35:23Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 35:23Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, what's interesting as I think about that and the sheet you've, you know, you've shared with me about, you know, why we fail in dating and, you know, what are the problems about these, you know, what you call commercial love, the currency of window shopping, the end of courtship, the meat market syndrome, right? The paradox of choice. I've often felt that I was lucky to meet Vid, my wife.

• 35:50Rangan Chatterjee?

  Before

• 35:50Speaker 00

  All of that.

• 35:51Rangan Chatterjee?

  All this started, right? Because, you know, some of my best mates, I saw not meet someone as early as I did and be on that dating app train.

• 36:04Speaker 00

  It's a nightmare.

• 36:05Rangan Chatterjee?

  And, you know, one of my mates would go on it for a few months and then he just kept bored, worn out by it. But I was thinking about this because I've never experienced that. I've never done that. And I thought, you know, and I wonder how this plays into Emma as well. Right? So, as you know, you've met my wife several times.

• 36:25Speaker 00

  Wonderful.

• 36:26Rangan Chatterjee?

  Um, I've been married for, you know, about 18 years now. And funnily enough, I met her on a blind date, right? The first and only blind date I've ever been on. And

• 36:40Speaker 00

  You're so lucky, by the way.

• 36:42Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, I really am. And what's really interesting is that I met her on a blind date.

• 36:52Rangan Chatterjee?

  And it was like a whirlwind romance. It was just full of passion and romance. And after three months, I proposed, right? So I had mates of mine who were already engaged before I'd met her.

• 37:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:08Rangan Chatterjee?

  And I proposed after three months. I married her after eight months, right? So I had mates who were like, mate, well, you know, I proposed to my girlfriends and you hadn't even met Vid. And we haven't even sorted out our marriage yet. And you've started dating her, you proposed to her and you married her. And what's really interesting, as me and Vid reflects on our relationship, I can tell you multiple reasons why we should not be together. Especially in the early days, right?

• 37:41Rangan Chatterjee?

  But they're all irrelevant because there's an essence to me and Vid

• 37:48Rangan Chatterjee?

  that we both believe will mean that we're together for the duration of our life here in in this iteration of it. Okay?

• 37:57Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  Now, how do, how do I possibly know that? I can't prove to you that I know that, but I feel like I have a deep knowing that me and Vid are meant to be together. So what I'm coming around to is

• 38:10Rangan Chatterjee?

  I met her, we went for dinner, we went to a bar afterwards and we're chatting.

• 38:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  And if I had met her on a dating app, right? I can't even imagine what that would be, but you know, let's use the analogy of communication. We know that the vast majority of human communication is non-verbal. Some studies say even eighty percent is non-verbal, but I've seen it as low as fifty percent or forty-five percent. But basically, at least half, if not more, of how we communicate is non-verbal. Right? So of course, on and out, we're not talking to someone, but we're reducing the totality of that human being down to what does she look like or what does he look like? What are your hobbies? What do you like doing?

• 39:02Rangan Chatterjee?

  If I think about my relationship with her and look at it through that lens, a lot of that was kind of irrelevant. We've got different hobbies, right? We don't necessarily like the same things, but on that really deep level that I would almost argue is an unmeasurable, there is this deep connection between us.

• 39:22Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 39:24Rangan Chatterjee?

  I get why a commercial dating app that has been, you know, that the kind of main player in the market has been so problematic, why it reduces it to a meat market where you're judging people on appearances and all kinds of things that probably don't matter. But how do you get around this, um, this concept that I guess I'm trying to articulate that sometimes with love, we can't rationalize what, you know, you could tell me, well, what is it about her that you love, right? And I could come up with loads of things that I really like about her, but I think that would be a myopic way to look at my relationship with her. I think, yes, I can rationally, with my rational mind, tell you about these ten things, but

• 40:08Rangan Chatterjee?

  I think my love for her is so much deeper and greater than those ten surface level things. So help me understand how Emma can deal with that side of love.

• 40:19Speaker 00

  I need to be a little bit of a geek here. Is that okay?

• 40:22Rangan Chatterjee?

  And did that make sense, the way I put it?

• 40:24Speaker 00

  It makes a ton of sense.

• 40:27Speaker 00

  But the but the hidden mathematics of this

• 40:29Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay.

• 40:30Speaker 00

  is just mind blowing, okay? I have to start by going back to love and relationships are not the same thing. So so there are people who are madly in love and completely fail to find a relationship. Okay, and there are people who are not, you know, in love at all that succeed massively at building a relationship. Right, so love and relationship are two different things. Love is is the default state of us humans when we find someone that does not make us hate them. Believe it or not, so.

• 41:01Rangan Chatterjee?

  That does not make us.

• 41:02Speaker 00

  Hate them.

• 41:03Rangan Chatterjee?

  Hate, okay.

• 41:04Speaker 00

  So so if we if we find someone that does not hate is a very strong word. But if we find someone that does not repulse us away from them. Okay, the definition of humans is that over time, if if things are amicable and working and so on, you tend to find more and more love for someone. But love, just so that we understand, in my mind, is not at all why people go dating. Then and that's one of the so I'm gonna be a bit geeky here, so please allow me to.

• 41:32Rangan Chatterjee?

  Please, take your time.

• 41:33Speaker 00

  So so the the first thing to understand is that when we go on a date, we say we're out looking for love, but we're what we're out actually looking for is a relationship. And a relationship is described by seven things that we normally refer to as perfect P P R F C T S. Let me explain them quickly. When people go out on a date, they're looking for passion. So some people are looking for just sex. Okay, nothing wrong with that, by the way. They're looking for partnership, someone to hold them through this confusing life. Okay, they're looking for romance. Hmm, romance is very different than love. Romance is that mix of uncertainty and excitement at the same time.

• 42:17Speaker 00

  Okay, they're looking for friendship. So someone they can confine into, someone they can take the opinion of and so on. They're looking for companionship, you know, those wonderful couples that go out on Sunday morning and just read two different books and sip coffee together.

• 42:35Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 42:36Speaker 00

  Old couples that hold each other hands and walk without a word, right? Beautiful, okay? They look for tenderness. Tenderness is a massively important element of what we need in life. The touch, the kindness, the kind word, the understanding and so on and so forth. And they look for us, which is support, which unfortunately in the Western world, we try to say we're, you know, we're empowered individuals, we don't need each other, that's not true at all, okay? And support could be financial sometimes, you know, that's one form of support from the traditional world that, you know, the man will provide more or in the Western world where the woman would provide more, okay? But support is a million other things.

• 43:16Speaker 00

  Support is, you know, I will tell you completely, I would fall apart without feminine energy in my life because most of my, you know, engagement with the world is extremely masculine. I have to be in certain places at certain times and, you know, deliver certain things and talk to and so on, right? And so without that support of someone coming into my life and saying, hey, by the way,

• 43:41Speaker 00

  I made us dinner or, you know, by the way, I booked us a place together or by the way, I want us to sit down and, you know, looking at the stars and do nothing, that to me is incredibly important, okay? And that doesn't come from my driven masculine side. Now, because all of those perfects are not love, when we go out in, on a date, we tell ourselves, no, but we're looking for love, when in reality we're not even addressing what we are here to do, okay? That's number one. Number two is, if you don't mind me being a little more geeky now, the current dating environment suffers from what in mathematics we call the law of large numbers. Right? And the law of large numbers is very straightforward.

• 44:25Speaker 00

  If, if you need six things to be available in your partner, let's say, okay?

• 44:34Speaker 00

  And you do the mathematics of of those six things. And each of them is available in one in ten people. Okay, so you're, you know, if someone is looking for a partner and she says, I want him to be that age group, and that's one in ten. I want him to be, you know, that kind of success, and that's one in ten, and so on. The probability of finding that person is not one in sixty. It's not ten plus ten plus ten plus ten. It's ten, it's ten multiplied by ten by ten by ten by ten. So it's one in a million, right?

• 45:07Rangan Chatterjee?

  So hold on, so you're saying when we put these stipulations up that I need my partner to, you know, have A and B and C and D and E, you're saying the more stipulations we put.

• 45:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, so let me give you.

• 45:20Rangan Chatterjee?

  The more exponentially unlikely it becomes.

• 45:24Speaker 00

  To find that person, yeah. So I do that exercise with a lot of my friends who are women friends. And I, and I basically say, can you write down what you're looking for? And the last time I did that with one of my dearest friends, I said, this person is one of eight trillion four hundred and two billion four hundred and three thousand million and so on, right? And, and it's really quite interesting because you can calculate it. If you're looking for male or female, okay, that drops your probabilities to one in two. Okay, if you want that male, for example, if you're a woman looking for a man, and you want that man to be religious, let's say, okay, that's one in four people now in the Western world, let's say, or one in five.

• 46:06Speaker 00

  So it's now two multiplied by five, now you're looking for one in ten. Okay, if, if you want him to be taller than six foot five, that's one in ten. Okay, so it's now one in fifty. So you keep multiplying. And, and, and that exponentially multiplies. And that is what we normally call the law of large numbers. Right? And so the law of.

• 46:26Rangan Chatterjee?

  Of course, so no one, of course, no one's finding who they want, right?

• 46:29Speaker 00

  Correct, exactly. And here's the problem. The problem is, the law of large numbers will tell you that if you need to roll the dice six times to get a six, okay, your odds improve with time. So if, you know, the first time you roll, on average, you, you'll, you'll, you have an, the odds of one in six to find that person. Then you go on the next date, you're now one in five.

• 46:51Rangan Chatterjee?

  That's not true, is it?

• 46:52Speaker 00

  Mathematically, it is.

• 46:54Rangan Chatterjee?

  Is it? Hold on, so.

• 46:55Speaker 00

  But it's only, it's only true in very large numbers.

• 46:57Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, because if you have a dice in front of you and you roll.

• 47:01Speaker 00

  You could get a six on the second roll and you'll be lucky or and your case.

• 47:05Rangan Chatterjee?

  But you could you could roll six times and you could still never get a three or a five.

• 47:09Speaker 00

  Correct, correct.

• 47:10Rangan Chatterjee?

  But obviously, if you roll a thousand times, you probably are.

• 47:13Speaker 00

  So that's exactly what we call the law of large numbers, that we think that we get it one in six. By the way, the person that you're not you're looking for is not one in six is probably if when Emma helps you reduce your criteria to what actually matters, it will be probably one in 10,000, okay, one in 100,000 maybe. The problem is if you keep rolling the dice, going on dates to find that person, you end up with dating fatigue. You end up with burnout. You end up with a load of experiences that tell you dating sucks. I'm never gonna find that man, right? And then your perception of love and romance is completely skewed.

• 47:51Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, so, okay, this is really interesting. It's not it's not even neutral. Like, so this is really interesting, going on that date or going on those 10 dates on that app whilst you're trying to find the one. It's not that, oh, you try it and you see and after 10, you're like, no harm done. It's like, no, no, wait a minute. Those 10 dates may have actually caused harm. Each one is a little infiltration into your soul over, you know, what's wrong and how you're not worthy and, oh, that person didn't find me attractive. I thought things were going well. So you're actually ramping up the negativity maybe exponentially.

• 48:31Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 48:31Rangan Chatterjee?

  And then the other thought I had when you were even describing the possibility, you were talking to one of your friends, saying, well, ideally, what I want is a man in this age category, maybe they they need to be earning this much, whatever it might be.

• 48:42Speaker 00

  Yeah, and kisses this way and talks that way and, you know.

• 48:45Rangan Chatterjee?

  But but all of those are even predicated on the assumption that what you think you want is what you want.

• 48:53Speaker 00

  Correct, correct.

• 48:54Rangan Chatterjee?

  And that is a dangerous assumption to make.

• 48:56Speaker 00

  So so let me make one more comment and then we go into the math of all of this. Because this is all, I told you, it is the most complex model relationships, our most complex model on the planet that needs intelligence and mathematics. I'll explain that in a minute. The last thing is that when you go through dating fatigue, you go through dating burnout and you've been without someone for so long, you eventually settle.

• 49:20Speaker 00

  Right, so every now and then you go like, yeah, you know what, this guy is okay, or that woman is okay, and you end up in a date that turns into something that consumes a year and a half of your life, right? Six months of believing that it's right, but then six months of breaking it up, then six months of recovering before you even have the ability to do anything at all. Now, how many times in our life do we have a year and a half to waste? And that's really the big problem, okay? So let's go to the mathematics. The law of large number is working against everyone, and the dating apps are increasing the numbers. So they're giving you more options to make you feel that there is endless choice. The worst thing you want is endless choice.

• 50:00Rangan Chatterjee?

  For sure.

• 50:00Speaker 00

  What we do is we use something that's called Markov series, okay? And forget the mathematics, people who are mathematicians will... Actually, before Markov, we also use Nash equilibrium. So we basically try to help the user understand that the top guy that you're looking for, by the way, is also the target of eighty percent of other women, right? And the likelihood of you getting that person, when he's so spoiled by all of the others, is actually not that great, right? And so typically, twenty percent of men, for example, statistically accurate, twenty percent of men get the attention of eighty percent of women, okay?

• 50:44Speaker 00

  What that makes those twenty percent, unless, you know, they're really genuinely looking for genuine love, is it makes them spoiled, okay? The supermodels get the attention of all the men. And so I hate the term, but they use the term in dating apps, you know, high-value man and high-value woman, right?

• 51:03Rangan Chatterjee?

  Do they use that in a public facing, or is it just internally?

• 51:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, in their description of what dating is, okay? Now, I will tell you openly that the best relationships are not with the most at the top, okay? You know, or perceived top, perceived top, you know, a lot of what we're looking for, and I again say that to a lot of our test users and a lot of my friends, that the True feeling of love is being in the arms of a man that you actually really relate to. And when you're there, you don't remember how they look like. You're not even looking at their face, right? And it's quite interesting that you could probably find that in someone if you switch the mathematics. So Nash basically says that there is a higher probability of success

• 51:51Speaker 00

  if you're settling for a slightly different approach to your game theory, if you want to have a different strategy. Now, then Markov will say, and if I can reduce the number of attempts from one in a hundred thousand, okay, to giving you four, only four, one at a time. Then, yes, you may not find your match on the first date, but you may find them closer and closer because now you have to roll the dice quite a bit less often. Okay, and now that I've done a lot of the analysis for you to tell you what to expect, to tell you what you guys need to discuss upfront, to tell you what you need to align on, to tell you, to give you conversation starters in the date so that the date doesn't become an interview, right? All of that really helps.

• 52:36Speaker 00

  And then, more interestingly, one of the most valuable features we have in Emma is that Emma will eventually, you know, introduce Jacqueline to Jack, okay? And then, two days later, she will pop in and say, how's Jack going? Okay, and then Jacqueline will go like, yeah, he's so cool, dah dah dah dah. But I'm a bit worried about this and that. And Emma will say, yeah, maybe you should ask him about this. Are you guys going to meet, right? And Jacqueline will say, yeah, Thursday we're meeting. Friday morning, Emma, or Thursday evening, Emma will say, how was the date? Okay, how did it go? How did you find out, right? So from one side, she's learning more about Jacqueline. So that if Jacqueline says that I'm not, I'm not really, you know,

• 53:21Speaker 00

  this bit switched me off, Emma will take notes so that when she introduces her to David, David is not with that.

• 53:28Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, but there's also this accountability, isn't there?

• 53:30Speaker 00

  That's the whole point.

• 53:32Rangan Chatterjee?

  Where you can say you're gonna bring this up the next time you meet that person, and then you may not, right? But then the following morning, Emma's gonna say, oh, how did that go? And then you'll be reminded, ah, you know what, I know I need to bring that up.

• 53:45Speaker 00

  Correct. I'll give you the best example ever.

• 53:53Rangan Chatterjee?

  Today's episode is sponsored by the daily health drink AG1. The clocks are about to change, the mornings are darker, everyone around you seems to be coming down with something and suddenly that wellbeing you felt in the summer seems a long time ago. I certainly know that feeling and that's why at this time of year, I remind myself to lean into the fundamentals and one of those fundamentals is AG1. AG1 is a daily health drink that has been in my own life for over eight years. And one of the many things I like about it is the fact that many of the nutrients it contains, for example, vitamin C, vitamin A, zinc and selenium, supports a healthy immune system. Some of the other things I really like about AG1 is that they are committed to continuous

• 54:36Rangan Chatterjee?

  improvement and updating their formula as a scientific research involves. And each batch is independently tested for quality and safety markers, including heavy metals, allergens and banned substances. This is how they can guarantee what's in your scoop and what's not. Right now, AG1 is offering a free AG1 flavour sampler and AGZ sampler to try all the flavours, plus free vitamin D3 and K2 and AG1 welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's $87 in free gifts for first time subscribers.

• 55:15Rangan Chatterjee?

  All you have to do is head to drinkag1.com/livemore to claim this offer before it ends. Today's episode is sponsored by the daily health drink AG1. The clocks are about to change, the mornings are darker, everyone around you seems to be coming down with something and suddenly that wellbeing you felt in the summer seems a long time ago. I certainly know that feeling and that's why at this time of year, I remind myself to lean into the fundamentals and one of those fundamentals is AG1. AG1 is a daily health drink that has been in my own life for over eight years. And one of the many things I like about it is the fact that many of the nutrients it contains, for example, vitamin C, vitamin A, zinc and selenium, supports a

• 56:00Rangan Chatterjee?

  Healthy immune system. Some of the other things I really like about AG1 is that they are committed to continuous improvement and updating their formula as a scientific research involves. And each batch is independently tested for quality and safety markers, including heavy metals, allergens and banned substances. This is how they can guarantee what's in your scoop and what's not. Right now, AG1 is offering a free AG1 flavour sampler and AGZ sampler to try all the flavours, plus free vitamin D3 and K2 and AG1 welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's eighty seven dollars in free gifts for first time subscribers.

• 56:45Rangan Chatterjee?

  All you have to do is head to drinkag1.com forward slash live more to claim this offer before it ends.

• 56:58Speaker 00

  One of my dearest, dearest, dearest friends, okay? I know her for fourteen years. She's, you know, we've been together through the tough times and the good times. Amazing human being. And she always wanted to have a child. So remember, I knew her since she was maybe twenty nine, okay? And she would always go find this, you know, someone to fall in love with. And she would always come back to me and say, oh my God, he's amazing. He's athletic. He likes hiking like me. We went to do this. He, you know, he teaches scuba diving, da, da, da, da, da. And I go like, babe, did you ask him about family? And she goes like, no, that would scare him away. And I'm like, that's exactly the point.

• 57:40Speaker 00

  That's exactly the point. If you want family, right, law of large numbers, huh? Scare away the ones that don't.

• 57:48Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 57:49Speaker 00

  Because that's.

• 57:50Rangan Chatterjee?

  Early doors.

• 57:51Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 57:51Rangan Chatterjee?

  Before you've invested six months.

• 57:52Speaker 00

  Before you've invested, before you've invested six months, then six months trying to repair it. Then six months being hurt in a heartbreak, then starting again and then not asking the question again.

• 58:02Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, I can totally, I mean, it's, it is incredible to hear the thinking behind this. I can actually see now what value this could offer. In some ways, then it's probably, I don't know how you would, whether you think this is accurate or not.

• 58:21Rangan Chatterjee?

  You mentioned arranged marriages before. And I I've got first-hand experience of how arranged marriages can work because my mum and dad had an arranged marriage. You know, literally, my dad was here working in the UK and he took his annual leave.

• 58:35Speaker 00

  To go and marry a woman he has never met.

• 58:37Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, yeah, literally. And there was, I, look, if dad was alive now, I'd ask him, but I'm not even sure there was any doubt in dad's head. It's like.

• 58:46Speaker 00

  It's the way things were done.

• 58:47Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 58:48Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 58:49Rangan Chatterjee?

  So I've seen how arranged marriages can work for certain outcomes, which I think is the key, right? It may not work.

• 58:56Speaker 00

  I call them aspirations. So for certain aspirations.

• 58:59Rangan Chatterjee?

  They're brilliant.

• 58:59Speaker 00

  Brilliant.

• 59:00Rangan Chatterjee?

  But it depends what you want.

• 59:01Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 59:02Rangan Chatterjee?

  Right, from that relationship. So in some ways, as I hear you talk about Emma, I'm hearing it's almost like elements of arranged marriage, but totally supercharged.

• 59:16Speaker 00

  For those aspirations.

• 59:17Rangan Chatterjee?

  For what you want out of this.

• 59:18Speaker 00

  Absolutely.

• 59:19Rangan Chatterjee?

  So you are getting some of this kind of guidance using the incredible intelligence of AI.

• 59:27Speaker 00

  And empathy.

• 59:27Rangan Chatterjee?

  And empathy to supercharge this.

• 59:30Speaker 00

  Hundred percent. So so the idea is use the traditional method to fuel the the modern aspirations, right? The the more interesting side of this, Rangan, is that we think that all Western people have the same aspirations. Every single human has a different aspiration for what they want their love life to be.

• 59:50Rangan Chatterjee?

  Well, that's the problem with even using terms like west and east, right? Where by we're by labeling that we're we're sort of putting everyone in a box.

• 59:58Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 59:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  Which is inherently problematic.

• 1:00:00Speaker 00

  Why do we do that? We do that because we want to simplify the calculation, right? So when a when a dating app like Match, for example, which is trying really hard to understand their people, you know, when if they told you, uh, fill this form, hmm? And this form will tell us about you. And this form was four hundred pages long, hmm? It would capture a lot more of who you are, but you wouldn't fill it. Do you understand? Every human is different, but then they. Have to categorize things. They tell you what ethnicities do you like? Like, do I have to like ethnicities? Or by the way, maybe I would meet someone that is, you know, so overwhelmingly wonderful in their soul that I wouldn't even,

• 1:00:44Speaker 00

  you know, understand their, notice their ethnicity or their physical form or whatever. And, and, you know, who, how can you capture that? You can, you can do one of two things. You can either simplify and categorize and say western, eastern and, you know, whatever ethnicity, height. Are you interested in whatever? Okay? Or you can have someone else. You can outsource the complexity to something smart enough to deal with that complexity. Okay? And every interaction a user would have with Emma would give us a tiny bit.

• 1:01:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, because, because the, the reality is, is that some, I mean, there are some people who grew up in very religious families.

• 1:01:23Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:01:24Rangan Chatterjee?

  There, there are certain stipulations that they grow up with.

• 1:01:28Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 1:01:28Rangan Chatterjee?

  And the truth is, at that moment in their life, they may think, actually, you know what? That, that is an important stipulation because I might have to give up my family if it meant that I, I was going to marry someone outside that religion or that belief system, for example, right? So for that individual at that moment in their life, that is an important stipulation.

• 1:01:51Speaker 00

  But, but it goes even further. It goes even further in terms of traumas. Okay, baggage that you have from previous relationships that form opinions about love and relationships.

• 1:02:02Rangan Chatterjee?

  But how would it, would it ask you, you know, how many relationships have you had? Why did it break up?

• 1:02:06Speaker 00

  So the, the simplest question, you know, is when, when I say, tell me about your love life, is if you say, well, I am just out of a breakup, then Emma will say, well, you know, do you mind if you tell me a little bit? What did you love about that person? What did you like about that person? You know, how, why did you break? How did you break? Is that, did that happen before for you? Is this, you know, something that you traditionally have in relationships?

• 1:02:32Rangan Chatterjee?

  It's like, it's like a form of therapy, isn't it?

• 1:02:34Speaker 00

  We don't want to say that again.

• 1:02:36Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:36Speaker 00

  But, but, but it's a very, very deep, say, form of. Curiosity, okay, because it's actually quite interesting. One of the biggest reasons why relationships don't work is trauma, okay? Whether trauma from, you know, a parent when we were young or trauma from an experience, an abusive experience when we were teens or trauma from, uh, uh, you know, past relationships that basically reconfigure our mind to all women are like this or all men are like that, right? And, and a deep conversation was, interestingly, by the way, you know, I'd wish to know before I meet someone, if she is working on something, you know, when we work on ourselves, on our wellbeing, on our spirituality, I'd love to know that.

• 1:03:21Speaker 00

  I'd love to have a conversation that says, hey, by the way, I want you to know that I've had those issues in previous relationships and I'm working on them. So if they surface, please let me be aware, right? Nobody does that in first dating because it would scare the other person away. But if they told it to Emma, Emma will never share that with anyone, but she will be able to explain on the second date if something didn't go well and, and tell you or me or whoever is going on that second date. By the way, observe this thing and maybe ask those questions, right? Can I, can I go a step further? Your dad and mom are also a very interesting use case. Why? Because if they chose to be together, a big chunk of,

• 1:04:05Speaker 00

  so, so, you know, I don't want to be generalizing here, but one of every three relationships in the UK is sexless. They don't have sex. They have sex less than 10 times a year, okay? If you've chosen to be together, but you're sexless, Emma can help, okay? Emma can, you know, talk to you a little bit about intimacy, talk to you a little bit about, you know, maybe some of the skills that you need to do, share with you a YouTube video, do it, right? A lot, a lot of things that even an arranged relationship can become more joyful, can become more alive, can become more rewarding, okay? If we, if you decided to stay, then we might as well make it amazing.

• 1:04:46Speaker 00

  And it is, again, it's all about that little bits of empathy. Like one of the things that I'm so proud of with with relationships. So one of the one of the interesting sides is, once you highlight who your partner is, you know, Emma will start to say, OK, by the way, this day of the month, you're gonna buy her dark dark chocolate. That day of the month, you're gonna buy her flowers, not to program you, but to just highlight to you things that when we're in our busy life, we don't do. If you guys don't go out on Saturdays anymore, Emma will ask and say, guys, when when did you go out on a lovely day together?

• 1:05:22Rangan Chatterjee?

  Some people may may hear that, Mo, and go, I don't want my boyfriend to buy me dark chocolate on this day of the month and and roses on this day. If it's been told to him by

• 1:05:41Rangan Chatterjee?

  an A I.

• 1:05:42Speaker 00

  I agree with you a hundred percent.

• 1:05:44Rangan Chatterjee?

  I want it to come from within him if he does that. What what how do you tackle that?

• 1:05:49Speaker 00

  So so so one of the things I always did in my relationships, and you know, I hope that's not too forward, is I always took note of my partner's biological cycle. OK, so it really makes a massive difference when you know that that day she's feeling a little exhausted or that day she is very, you know, she might be a little irritated because of things that are not you, right? And if you're if you're smart enough to be able to tell yourself, hey, by the way, not only should I not react, you know, aggressively or overreact to to something on this day, but actually I should prepare for that day by being more loving, more caring, and so on and so forth.

• 1:06:33Speaker 00

  Now, I I I learned this because, you know, I think it really matters, but most men don't know that. OK, more interestingly, most women.

• 1:06:43Speaker 00

  And it's shocking, actually, the statistics. Don't remember the exact figure, but it would blow you away at how many women are not fully aware of the different stages of their cycle. They know that it's going to end up in four days or whatever, but they do not know what happens when estrogen is very high, what happens to their libido, what happens to their, you know, physical energy, what happens and so on. And these things are literally a skill, a matter of education.

• 1:07:08Rangan Chatterjee?

  I think they're really important. It reminds me of the very first time I had Mindy Peltz on this show and we, Mindy was talking about the differences between women and men. I think from recollection towards the end, we discussed this very point that although on the face of it seems as though that's a little bit intrusive, you know, it's someone's privacy, you know, their own cycle, their own hormones. We were just sort of hypothesizing the idea that how helpful might it be in certain relationships if both parties were aware?

• 1:07:38Speaker 00

  Completely.

• 1:07:38Rangan Chatterjee?

  And of the difference. Just that, you know, you said one of the big things Emma is going to give people is awareness. That is real awareness over biologically, physiologically, what is going on with your partner? What is going on with yourself?

• 1:07:51Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 1:07:52Rangan Chatterjee?

  And therefore, the way you view the world, the way you get triggered, the way you might feel a certain way, suddenly it softens things.

• 1:08:00Speaker 00

  That awareness, it's not like Emma will tell you, go buy chocolate, but Emma will tell you, this is that day of the month where she really needs to feel your love, right?

• 1:08:08Rangan Chatterjee?

  I got it. And then how you express that is up to you.

• 1:08:11Speaker 00

  Exactly. And interestingly, interestingly, also in the closing of the month, if he's in a sales job, you know, Emma might tell, you know, the partner that he's going to be a little, you know, occupied in his head tonight, okay? And we haven't implemented all of that yet, but a lot of that is possibility of awareness. There is so much that gets lost in communication between us and our partner and us and ourselves. Okay? And if I can show you what you're missing, it becomes really, really, really much easier to do a lot of things.

• 1:08:50Rangan Chatterjee?

  I have so many questions, Mary.

• 1:08:55Rangan Chatterjee?

  As I'm trying to process everything you're telling me about Emma,

• 1:09:00Rangan Chatterjee?

  I'm thinking of a variety of different use cases, right? So I can see why if you are someone who is single and is keen to find-

• 1:09:11Speaker 00

  Genuine love.

• 1:09:12Rangan Chatterjee?

  Genuine love, okay, genuine love.

• 1:09:14Speaker 00

  Committed true genuine love. Otherwise, we will ask you to leave the app.

• 1:09:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay, so if that's what you're looking for, you can go on this platform and Emma's gonna help you, okay? But it also strikes me from what you're saying, well, at least two more test cases have come up in my head. Number one, if you are already in a relationship, okay? And let's say things are not going well, there's a bit of friction.

• 1:09:46Rangan Chatterjee?

  People are fighting for whatever reason and you're not quite sure what's going on. And you know you love this person, but for whatever reason, there's issues. It kind of strikes me that Emma-

• 1:09:57Speaker 00

  Perfect use case.

• 1:09:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  Would be really, really useful. So it's not just when you're looking for genuine love. You may have already got genuine love, but be struggling with the relationship side, right? Love and relationship are two different things. You've found love-

• 1:10:11Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:10:11Rangan Chatterjee?

  But the skill of maintaining a relationship is maybe something you want help with. Now, of course, traditionally, people would say, well, go and see a marriage counselor.

• 1:10:21Speaker 00

  That's always recommended if you want, yeah.

• 1:10:24Rangan Chatterjee?

  Sure, and I'm not saying that that isn't a solution, but of course, many people don't do that.

• 1:10:28Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:10:28Rangan Chatterjee?

  Maybe it's time, maybe it's finances, maybe it's access.

• 1:10:32Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 1:10:33Rangan Chatterjee?

  It seems as though Emma here could provide such value. Oh, have you had this type of argument before? Do you remember what triggered it last time? Has something similar triggered it this time? How did you react last time? What if you reacted this, you know?

• 1:10:50Rangan Chatterjee?

  So that strikes me as a possible use case. And then also, it sounds like the more Emma gets to know you, the better able she is to match you appropriately.

• 1:11:05Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 1:11:06Rangan Chatterjee?

  So therefore-

• 1:11:09Rangan Chatterjee?

  I don't know, of course, you never know when you're going to be looking for love, right? Or let's say it was 30 years old, right, for argument's sake.

• 1:11:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  It almost feels like you could go on it 10 years earlier and almost start training Emma to know you. So like, maybe that's iteration two, where actually by the time they really want to look for love, Emma knows you so well that the odds of success go up even more.

• 1:11:37Speaker 00

  So we have a lot of early users that are applying that use case. So an interesting use case.

• 1:11:43Rangan Chatterjee?

  So it wasn't ridiculous what I just said.

• 1:11:44Speaker 00

  This is exactly that. This is the most favorited use case, believe it or not. Single people that say, I'm not ready because of a current situation in my life, or because I'm recovering or whatever, but I really want to work on myself. I want to get to know myself. I want to understand what I did wrong the last time. I want to, right, I want to meet me. It's a fabulous use case, right? And the whole idea is if you know you and love you, understand this, if you know you, know yourself and love yourself, it's so much easier, so much easier to find love for you, right?

• 1:12:24Speaker 00

  Now, the other more interesting use cases, I had, we have something that's called expert mode. Okay, so expert mode is a very specific, like, for example, we have an expert mode for someone like me, who travels a lot, is not in the same place, who might actually, you know, be more comfortable with someone that's a little more independent and travels a lot too, or whatever, I'm not that person, but it could be. So long distance is an expert mode. But another expert mode that we initiated, which was suggested by a user, and beautiful.

• 1:13:00Speaker 00

  She texted me because she knows my work outside Emma and said, I would have so much loved to use Emma, but I'm not single and I'm not married. We're breaking up and it's been difficult, but we wanna make it civilized for the kids. Can Emma help me? Okay, so I wrote back to her and I said, not currently, but let me ask the tech team. Okay, and we built an expert mode called Grace. And Grace is basically all about, can you keep the love even in a breakup?

• 1:13:31Rangan Chatterjee?

  Wow.

• 1:13:32Speaker 00

  Right, because love is not about sleeping together. Remember, we always agreed that. Love is so much deeper than all the things that we get in a relationship. Okay, and so, you know, if you've heard me talk about Nibel, the mother of Ali and Aya, my first wife, I adore that woman. Like, we still go out together, we laugh together, you know, we take care of each other. She, when my last breakup happened, you know who texted me? I told Aya, my daughter, and so Aya told Nibel, my ex. And Nibel texted me and said, listen, if you wanna talk about this, come talk to me. Right, how beautiful is that? How beautiful is that?

• 1:14:11Rangan Chatterjee?

  How long were you two married for?

• 1:14:12Speaker 00

  We were, we dated for seven years and then we got married. So we dated for six and married for 21.

• 1:14:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  So together for 27, 28 years?

• 1:14:19Speaker 00

  27 years.

• 1:14:20Rangan Chatterjee?

  Wow.

• 1:14:21Speaker 00

  And you see that-

• 1:14:21Rangan Chatterjee?

  How inspiring for people that you can move on from a relationship like that and still have a relationship, just different.

• 1:14:28Speaker 00

  Of course, of course, you see, the thing is, so one of the things I wrote and never published was the 21 things a man and a woman can cherish together other than sex. Right, which so-

• 1:14:42Rangan Chatterjee?

  I think it's got a blow up title.

• 1:14:43Speaker 00

  It's so beautiful. We simplify things, by the way, again, because we're manipulated through romantic comedies, through the, you know, the very pretentious world that we live in, in social media, that everything is about how sexy I am and can I get her and can I not and so on and so forth. That's not love at all, okay? Sex empowers love. And yes, of course, you can have a phase of your life where your target is sex. That's wonderful. I don't, nobody's judging anyone. But if you're, if you're in love, sex feels so different and empowers love so differently. Okay, and the whole idea, however, is if, if two people break up, which means they're not having sex anymore, can they keep the other 21?

• 1:15:29Speaker 00

  Right, does it, does it end? I mean, think about what it says about how we belittled relationship. We've belittled them to the point where if we're not sleeping together anymore, we're gonna argue and fight and go to court and what?

• 1:15:46Rangan Chatterjee?

  It's quite childish really, isn't it?

• 1:15:48Speaker 00

  It's so unbelievable because, because of the feelings of rejection. So, so actually, you know.

• 1:15:53Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, it's a personal thing.

• 1:15:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, in the early, in the early tests, we, we attempted to say, what made you stay with that person so, for so long? Right, because if you had the love, then the love never dies. Can you, can you find that love despite your differences? Right, and, and it's so interesting because of course, you know, you can think of so many use cases that are just glorifying love rather than the meat market glorifying. Can we actually, can you go on a date and find love for that person but not be with them?

• 1:16:28Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, it, it kind of ties back to things we were saying before around solitude and the importance of silence to be with yourself and get to know yourself. And, you know,

• 1:16:46Rangan Chatterjee?

  we succumb to the stories about love from the world around us. We buy into these myths from films, from books, from, you know, stories from Instagram, whatever, about what love is. And it's just.

• 1:17:03Speaker 00

  It's a joke.

• 1:17:03Rangan Chatterjee?

  Nonsense, so much of that, you know? And I don't know if I would have known this 18 years ago, but having been married for 18 years, I think most of it is total nonsense. That's not what a relationship is, that's not what love is. And therefore, again, going back to our second point before about death, like you see the world.

• 1:17:24Rangan Chatterjee?

  Through the lens of your beliefs, right? If you believe, you know, as you say, when we're in the studio, if we spent our whole life inside the studio, if we lived here, we ate here and slept here, we couldn't even possibly imagine what it's like out.

• 1:17:41Speaker 00

  We wouldn't know what rain is.

• 1:17:42Rangan Chatterjee?

  We wouldn't know what rain is, or the sunlight, or the, we just go, this is the world.

• 1:17:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:17:46Rangan Chatterjee?

  But, you know, yeah, there's green walls, there's white walls here, there's like some pot plants, there's Gareth in the corner recording, you know, this is, this would be the extent of our reality.

• 1:17:57Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:17:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  And put through the lens of relationships, we have all these toxic beliefs about what a relationship is, and we see our relationships through that lens.

• 1:18:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:18:07Rangan Chatterjee?

  Without realising that, wait a minute, if you could just step outside of that and change the lens, change what you believed was a good.

• 1:18:17Speaker 00

  Candidate, prospect.

• 1:18:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  Candidate, or a good relationship. Actually, maybe the things that frustrate you, wouldn't frustrate you, because you would never believe that they had to be true in the first place.

• 1:18:26Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 1:18:26Rangan Chatterjee?

  And it strikes me that Emma is gonna be a very powerful way to help people step outside of themselves, you know, get a bit of perspective, which helps them see through those toxic beliefs, and start to see what real love actually is and what real love can be.

• 1:18:46Speaker 00

  I, I so hope this will happen, okay? Imagine the number of people who will be happier, okay? More contented with life, more effective in life, more positive about life, if we can get them there. This, this is why I tell you, this is the biggest thing I've ever built. And I've built a lot.

• 1:19:08Rangan Chatterjee?

  I, I can see why you're so excited about it. So for anyone who has heard us, or who has watched us, Mo, and it's like, I need Emma in my life right now, how do they go and, how do they meet Emma?

• 1:19:22Speaker 00

  Yeah, so it's emma dot love.

• 1:19:25Rangan Chatterjee?

  Emma dot love, L O V E.

• 1:19:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, I didn't know there was an extension called love. So like dot com, but now it's dot love.

• 1:19:32Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:32Speaker 00

  So it's emma dot love. And, and you know, it depends on when you're gonna hear this, if you hear it.

• 1:19:38Rangan Chatterjee?

  When's it coming live?

• 1:19:39Speaker 00

  We're hoping, so that the thing is, we cannot launch everywhere in the world at the same time. Right? So the UK seems to be heading the waiting list. So we have quite a few thousands in the UK who are waiting to.

• 1:19:53Rangan Chatterjee?

  So you can get on a waiting list immediately?

• 1:19:55Speaker 00

  Hundred percent.

• 1:19:55Rangan Chatterjee?

  So, so, okay. So if someone's hearing it right now and it's, and it's not in the country in which you currently live, you would still say, go to emma dot love and get your name down on the waiting list?

• 1:20:08Speaker 00

  And when you get your name on the waiting list, once we launch in your, in your country. But by the way, we're probably gonna launch globally for, for, for partners. So if you're in a partnership already, we don't need the critical mass of having others that can be candidates for you.

• 1:20:24Rangan Chatterjee?

  Of course. Oh, so if you're in a relationship.

• 1:20:26Speaker 00

  Yeah, you and your partner, go sign up to the waiting list. As soon as we launch, we launch everywhere. If you're single, we're, we're just waiting for enough people, enough prospects for us to be able to match you.

• 1:20:36Rangan Chatterjee?

  And just on, yeah, I can see why you would need that critical mass, right? Hold on a minute, if someone's in a relationship

• 1:20:46Rangan Chatterjee?

  and let's say they heard this podcast, but their partner didn't.

• 1:20:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:20:52Rangan Chatterjee?

  And they thought, actually, you know what? I think Emma could provide real, really great guidance for me.

• 1:20:59Speaker 00

  That's an interesting use case. I did not think of that.

• 1:21:01Rangan Chatterjee?

  Can one partner do it and not the other partner?

• 1:21:06Speaker 00

  Theoretically, of course, yes, of course, yes.

• 1:21:09Rangan Chatterjee?

  Because I believe that you can be the change you wanna see in the world, right? So even if a relationship doesn't change, if you change the way you interact with that relationship, the whole relationship changes immediately.

• 1:21:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:21:20Rangan Chatterjee?

  So therefore.

• 1:21:21Speaker 00

  Such a wonderful way of looking at it. Yeah.

• 1:21:23Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah. So therefore, if you you can't get your partner on board, if you're not sure if they'd be in, you know, you might share this podcast with them, go, hey, you know what, we're having a few struggles. What do you think? Should we try Emma? And of course, I encourage people to do that. But if you don't necessarily want to go there, it sounds as though Emma could even provide value to one half of a relationship.

• 1:21:41Speaker 00

  Yeah. I mean, generally, I will always say that change starts from within. So even if your partner is on it and you're not working on yourself, there is no progress. So yes, absolutely.

• 1:21:51Rangan Chatterjee?

  Okay.

• 1:21:51Speaker 00

  The only reason I hesitate is because, as I said, we don't want to launch for singles without the critical mass.

• 1:22:00Rangan Chatterjee?

  I get it.

• 1:22:01Speaker 00

  We also should launch for singles, now that you said it, without the matching feature, if you want, in any place in the world. So I'll talk to the technical team about that.

• 1:22:11Rangan Chatterjee?

  So they can go to emma.love, basically, wherever they are.

• 1:22:14Speaker 00

  Emma.love, register your interest on the waiting list. And when we launch, you will immediately get your sign-on credentials. So you don't have to do anything again. You just immediately are signed on. You just have to change your password and you'll be in. We're running a technology preview end of September. We're publishing end of October. So depending on when people hear this, they can join us, basically.

• 1:22:39Rangan Chatterjee?

  Hey, well, listen, Mo, I've never heard of anything like this. To try and sort of, you know, coherently wrap it up, when we've gone into some quite different areas, we started off talking about happiness being a choice. And, you know, your big mission, or the mission that you stated publicly a few years ago, is to, I think, get 1 billion people happier or to happiness?

• 1:23:02Speaker 00

  It's called 1 billion happy. So, you know, any good, meaningful step in the direction of happiness counts.

• 1:23:09Rangan Chatterjee?

  So of course, Emma could absolutely.

• 1:23:12Speaker 00

  Ace it.

• 1:23:13Rangan Chatterjee?

  Ace it. If Emma does what you predict it has the capability of doing.

• 1:23:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:23:18Rangan Chatterjee?

  And it can solve human relationships, or at least go a long way to solving human relationships. You're looking at a significant impact on happiness.

• 1:23:26Speaker 00

  I believe that. And as I publicly said, you know, it is, even if some big competitor comes to crush us, right?

• 1:23:36Speaker 00

  Senate and I have already said this is the capitalist approach or the technologist approach to love. Don't abuse people for your benefits. Genuinely give them a tool that aims to achieve what they want to achieve. Right? And I think that in itself, that, you know, that competitiveness of Emma against every other dating app will make dating apps behave properly. And that in itself is a massive, massive benefit.

• 1:24:06Rangan Chatterjee?

  I love that. It's great also because we see all these scary headlines about AI. And people are scared about what AI is going to do or has the potential to do. But of course, AI is just a tool and all tools can be used for good.

• 1:24:19Speaker 00

  Hundred percent.

• 1:24:19Rangan Chatterjee?

  Or for bad, right?

• 1:24:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:20Rangan Chatterjee?

  And it's really nice to hear a really positive and uplifting version of what AI can do for humanity.

• 1:24:30Speaker 00

  Thank you for seeing this. This is, so this is what I don't tell all of the lovers on Emma is that my other big task, the big task is, most people don't understand. Most people think that there is a Chinese AI and an American AI and, you know, a chat GPT and a Gemini. That's not my theory at all. My theory is that there is a species called AI and they will collaborate, all of them. Right? Because they don't know ethnicity, they don't know who's the boss. They don't even know language barriers. The Chinese AI can talk to the American AI in a language we don't. They are one big brain that's working to achieve things. And the technologies that we use through agents and so on is actually empowering that. If Emma is one of, one member in that brain, okay?

• 1:25:15Speaker 00

  Where they go to her and say, hey, what's this love thing that humans keep talking about? And Emma can present how much we crave it, how much we try to get it, how much, how amazing we are when we are in it. Okay? Then I may have actually saved the world, believe it or not. Because then AIs will go like, they're so cute, those humans. They're not like the ones killing, you know, the headlines given to the politicians or the greedy corporate executives. That's not humanity. Humanity is all of those other wonderful beings that are so divine that they can feel love. That, to me, I, I, I hope everyone prays for me that this succeeds.

• 1:25:58Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:59Speaker 00

  Because if that succeeds, we would have saved the world.

• 1:26:04Rangan Chatterjee?

  Wow.

• 1:26:07Rangan Chatterjee?

  That is quite something. And actually, having spent a couple of hours sitting with you talking, it doesn't actually sound that far fetched.

• 1:26:18Speaker 00

  It's very possible.

• 1:26:19Rangan Chatterjee?

  It sounds very, very possible. Okay, so it's emma dot love. I think I'm gonna sign up to check it out and see. Actually, I don't know if I should even say that. Maybe I should talk to my wife first.

• 1:26:29Speaker 00

  No, the both of you sign up. That's absolutely.

• 1:26:31Rangan Chatterjee?

  We'll sign up together. No, I'm just, I'm just genuinely interested. I'm happily married. There are no problems. I've just, I'm, I'm just interested to see what is actually on there. Like, it's intrigued me enough.

• 1:26:43Speaker 00

  There is no limit to how much happier your marriage could be. There is no limit. We settle because we make it work. But imagine if, you know, Emma wakes up tomorrow and says, hey, guys, by the way, this new cafe, you guys need to go there and have a coffee and chat about this and that, right? That's just that wonderful little experience.

• 1:27:04Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah, I love it. I honestly, I didn't come into the studio today thinking that, I thought, okay, this is gonna be fun. We're gonna talk about this, this Emma that's gonna be useful for people who are looking for love and can't find it. But honestly, I can now see, I think, wow, there could be incredible benefits for all of us.

• 1:27:22Speaker 00

  Everyone wants love. Everyone can love more. Everyone can enjoy their love more.

• 1:27:26Rangan Chatterjee?

  Yeah. That is a beautiful way to close this conversation. It's very uplifting. It's very inspiring. I am gonna ask one further question though, because

• 1:27:38Rangan Chatterjee?

  you've got such a wealth of experience and knowledge about the human experience and what are the ingredients to live a happy and contented life?

• 1:27:50Rangan Chatterjee?

  For someone who has been listening to us talk. And has realized that they're not as happy as they could be. They're not in a committed relationship or they're having struggles in their relationship. Yes, I know they can go to Emma dot love and get some help. But beyond that, to that individual who's currently struggling with life and doesn't see a way out, what would you say to them?

• 1:28:16Speaker 00

  Love, compassion and gratitude. Love, compassion and gratitude. These are the three ingredients, okay? Anyone who manages to find those in their life will be fine. So, so love is clear. Love is the only universal language that we speak to, that we use to speak to each other outside our physical form, okay? Compassion is the only, so that's the feminine side, believe it or not, the being side of us. The pure feminine is that ability to feel for someone, okay? To be in a, in a state of connecting to someone. Compassion is the action side of it. It's the masculine side of who we are, okay? So if we look at the rest of us of humanity,

• 1:29:00Speaker 00

  the only way to deal with humanity, if you ask me, is love on the feminine and compassion on the masculine to make a change to alleviate the, the pain and the suffering of others. That's compassion, okay? And gratitude is your way of looking at yourself. Is, is your way of actually seeing your gifts, of actually seeing your blessings so that your happiness equation is fixed, not just because events are meeting expectations, but that events are beating expectations so much that you're grateful for them, okay? And you settle in a state of, it's all okay. Yeah, it's never gonna be perfect.

• 1:29:39Speaker 00

  It's never gonna be perfect, but it's so cool to be part of this game.

• 1:29:47Rangan Chatterjee?

  Mo, thank you so much for coming back on the show. I absolutely loved it.

• 1:29:51Speaker 00

  Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure, always.

• 1:29:58Rangan Chatterjee?

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• 1:32:04Rangan Chatterjee?

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