Arthur Brooks

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The Rubin Report · How to Use AI Without Damaging Your Brain, the Science of Looksmaxxing & Leisure | Arthur Brooks · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

And that means, by the way, with social media, you should not be on social media platforms for more than an hour a day total combined across all platforms. matched

No, no, it's very hard. matched

It's a very hard thing to do. matched

But if you actually limited yourself to that, you'd start using it much, much more like a tool and you'd never get lost in, you know, in reels and algorithms. matched

Part of the reason that it's such a problem is when social media algorithms, they feed you information you didn't ask for and you become very addicted to extraneous information, information all day long. matched

You know, Einstein is purported to have said, I mean, he said on the internet, matched

Einstein is purported to have said that people read too many books. matched

And he said this in the 40s. matched

And the reason is because we get too much information and not enough thinking. matched

So let's go back to your example of what you're going to be doing on the beach. matched

You're not going to be reading a book. matched

You're going to be thinking about stuff that you already know to learn deeply about what you should be doing. matched

That's exactly what Einstein would say is a proper use of the knowledge that you already have. matched

The problem is actually your phone is a continuous book with no point. matched

Right. matched

That's the problem. matched

Yeah, even worse than that, when you had to wait for your friend for 15 minutes on the corner of 73rd and Columbus, what was happening is that as you waited and watched, the default mode network, a series of five structures in your brain would start to become active. matched

And when they did, you'd have mind wandering, flights of fancy, and you'd be thinking about the meaning of your life, which is exactly how your brain was intended to work. matched

Now, you know, we talked the last time, you know, in January about great-grandpa Ruben, you know, who was looking at a mule's butt all day long, and his default mode network was going all the time, and he was bored moment to moment, but his life was intensely interesting. matched

You know, today, when you've got your phone, your life moment to moment is never boring, but your life overall is extremely boring, which is because your brain isn't working the way it's supposed to. matched

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