Arthur Brooks

And when you first, you know, you got a lot of confidence, but when you're looking at the traffic and it's like chaos.

Wildly intimidating.

You're like half the height of everybody else.

Yeah.

And, you know, any system that you're in that doesn't seem to make sense, that it tends to feel really, really meaningless because you don't know what you can actually do to have some sense of agency.

There's no sense of agency when there is no coherence is what it comes down to.

So,

For example, if you believe that things happen the way they do because that's what God wills, then you're going to try to work that lever.

You're going to pray, for example.

You're going to have a relationship with God.

If you believe it's because of the laws of science, you're going to learn more about science.

And you're going to actually enter into that particular dimension.

So, for example, I'm a behavioral scientist.

I really believe in science.

I really believe that it's just like it gives you incredible amounts of power.

My job is to explain the science and explain how people can interact with the science.

It's a pure coherence play is what it comes down to.

And if it's all about conspiracy theories, then I'm going to get online and share them with my friends.

So that's why coherence really matters so that you can have agency over your life.

And why are directionless people so psychologically fragile?