Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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And part of the reason that's the big one is because that's the one that's missing from most young people's lives today.
That's what we have vacated largely to the way that we've used and misused technology.
Now, that's why I have this new book out, The Meaning of Your Life.
And the reason I wrote that book
is because that's, as a behavioral scientist, what I saw was the most urgent problem facing young people today.
The way that technology has affected our brains is it's largely vacated important activity in the right hemisphere, which you've had Ian McGilchrist on the show, right?
We haven't, but we will at some point.
He's really a genius on this.
He talks about hemispheric lateralization, where the right side of the brain is all the complex problems of mystery and meaning and love.
And the left side of the brain is the complicated problems of information and things and technology.
We check our phones on average 205 times a day, which just shoves us into the left side of our brain, where not only do we not know the meaning of our lives, we don't even ask the questions.
That's why young people are depressed and anxious today.
It has to do with how we're using our brains.
That's why a lot of young people today will go for every crazy activist scheme because they're screaming out for meaning because they don't naturally experience it.
This really is at the doorstep of small screens in our pockets.
Yes.
Yes.
No, people, religious people who practice their religion.
I mean, we all know a lot of people, of course, you know, look, you're not Catholics, right?
Actually, you're not, are you?
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