Arthur Brooks

If you don't understand what you're doing, you're going to be a pretty bad driver.

You're going to be in a traffic accident pretty quickly.

But there's also the I-self, which is looking out at the world, which is transcending yourself by looking out at the world in which you're one player, but you're only one player in it.

And it's interesting because transcendent experiences are those where the me-self disappears and the I-self becomes dominant.

There are times, actually, when they become confused, and that's kind of what a fugue state is psychologically, where you become disassociated with yourself in this weird way.

And all of us have experienced this.

I remember one time...

I had a lot on my mind and I was putting gas in my car and I was just like really worried about something.

It was back when I was a CEO and my life was like a living, like dystopian hell hole, right?

And everything was a problem every single day.

And I was putting gas in my car and it was like eight o'clock at night and I finished and I got back to my car and I was driving.

My daughter was with me in the car and she was a little girl then.

And there was this like weird clanking sound behind me.

Like somebody had a muffler down right behind me.

Like they were following me.

And I said, honey, what is that sound?

She said, I don't know.

It's like clankety, clankety, clankety, clankety.

They're following me.

What's going on?