Arthur Brooks

Now, the left side actually solves complicated problems. The right side deals with complex problems. Complex and complicated are fundamentally different insofar as complicated problems, they're hard to find the solutions to. But once you have the solutions, you can replicate them with almost effortless ease. Right, right. You should make them into an algorithm. Exactly right.

Exactly right. And that's the reason that you use the left side of the brain disproportionately when you're looking at social media or using technology. Engineering solutions are left brain solutions. The right brain problems are those that have very easy... Answers. We won the football game. They lost the football game. She fell in love with me. She didn't fall in love with me.

Exactly right. And that's the reason that you use the left side of the brain disproportionately when you're looking at social media or using technology. Engineering solutions are left brain solutions. The right brain problems are those that have very easy... Answers. We won the football game. They lost the football game. She fell in love with me. She didn't fall in love with me.

Exactly right. And that's the reason that you use the left side of the brain disproportionately when you're looking at social media or using technology. Engineering solutions are left brain solutions. The right brain problems are those that have very easy... Answers. We won the football game. They lost the football game. She fell in love with me. She didn't fall in love with me.

I have something I want to do. I don't have something that I want to do. But you can't answer the questions. You can only have an understanding of the questions. And to come to the understanding of those questions, you have to sit in the right hemisphere of your brain.

I have something I want to do. I don't have something that I want to do. But you can't answer the questions. You can only have an understanding of the questions. And to come to the understanding of those questions, you have to sit in the right hemisphere of your brain.

I have something I want to do. I don't have something that I want to do. But you can't answer the questions. You can only have an understanding of the questions. And to come to the understanding of those questions, you have to sit in the right hemisphere of your brain.

And to sit in the right hemisphere of your brain, you have to be undistracted and let your mind wander to stimulate the default mode network in your brain, which is intensely uncomfortable. Because we hate boredom. When you were at Harvard, Dan Gilbert, your colleague, Dan Gilbert, who's a wonderful social psychologist, he did all those experiments about people being bored.

And to sit in the right hemisphere of your brain, you have to be undistracted and let your mind wander to stimulate the default mode network in your brain, which is intensely uncomfortable. Because we hate boredom. When you were at Harvard, Dan Gilbert, your colleague, Dan Gilbert, who's a wonderful social psychologist, he did all those experiments about people being bored.

And to sit in the right hemisphere of your brain, you have to be undistracted and let your mind wander to stimulate the default mode network in your brain, which is intensely uncomfortable. Because we hate boredom. When you were at Harvard, Dan Gilbert, your colleague, Dan Gilbert, who's a wonderful social psychologist, he did all those experiments about people being bored.

So he would put people in a room for 15 minutes with nothing to do, except they had a button in front of them. You remember these experiments? No, not specifically. If they touch the button, they get a painful electric shock. Oh, yes, yes. And it turned out that 80% of the participants shocked themselves rather than letting their default mode network run free. Even animals will do that.

So he would put people in a room for 15 minutes with nothing to do, except they had a button in front of them. You remember these experiments? No, not specifically. If they touch the button, they get a painful electric shock. Oh, yes, yes. And it turned out that 80% of the participants shocked themselves rather than letting their default mode network run free. Even animals will do that.

So he would put people in a room for 15 minutes with nothing to do, except they had a button in front of them. You remember these experiments? No, not specifically. If they touch the button, they get a painful electric shock. Oh, yes, yes. And it turned out that 80% of the participants shocked themselves rather than letting their default mode network run free. Even animals will do that.

Absolutely. And one, they had to throw out this particular guy because he was such an outlier, shocked himself 190 times in 15 minutes. We hate boredom. We hate the default mode network. But unless you engage the right hemisphere of the brain and the default mode network by purposively just walking. and repetitively praying.

Absolutely. And one, they had to throw out this particular guy because he was such an outlier, shocked himself 190 times in 15 minutes. We hate boredom. We hate the default mode network. But unless you engage the right hemisphere of the brain and the default mode network by purposively just walking. and repetitively praying.

Absolutely. And one, they had to throw out this particular guy because he was such an outlier, shocked himself 190 times in 15 minutes. We hate boredom. We hate the default mode network. But unless you engage the right hemisphere of the brain and the default mode network by purposively just walking. and repetitively praying.

Unless you manually stimulate that part of your brain, you are not going to come to understanding about the why of your life. You're going to be stuck on the how and what. And you're going to be path dependent. And I knew that. I knew that.

Unless you manually stimulate that part of your brain, you are not going to come to understanding about the why of your life. You're going to be stuck on the how and what. And you're going to be path dependent. And I knew that. I knew that.

Unless you manually stimulate that part of your brain, you are not going to come to understanding about the why of your life. You're going to be stuck on the how and what. And you're going to be path dependent. And I knew that. I knew that.

It tends to be high negative affect. And so you're familiar with the PANAS test, the positive affect, negative affect sequence, which is I administer it to all my students at Harvard. I make them take this because I put them into four categories. The high positive, high negative category. It's high affect people. That's you and me, which are the mad scientist profile.