Arthur Brooks

which is sort of axiomatic, but a lot of people will say, you know, so I got this incredible screensaver of El Capitan and Yosemite.

It's like, there's the real thing.

It's going to blow your mind.

And the reason is because it is an entirely different neurobiological experience for people when they're actually out in nature.

If you're behind a screen, you're not getting beauty is what it comes down to.

And so artistic beauty is absent.

Moral beauty is absent.

Natural beauty is absent.

And the reason is because we're trying to filter everything through the left hemisphere.

The simulation isn't beautiful.

If you want to know if you're too much in the left hemisphere of your brain, it's whether you ask yourself, is there enough beauty in my life?

And if the answer is no, it probably means that you're too far to the left.

Yeah, that's the hard one.

I left, actually, I read about that in this book, and I left that to the last chapter because I was putting it off.

I was putting it off.

Suffering is the ultimate meaning-making experience.

And we've talked about that.

We've talked about heartbreak.

We've talked about loss.

We've talked about grief.