Arthur C. Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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No, no, for sure.
And that's actually a big creative block for a lot of young people who don't know how to be non-stimulated.
They've actually eradicated boredom, which is an incredibly neuro and dangerous neurophysiological thing to do.
Yeah, it's a very bad thing to be systematically never bored.
You're effectively shoving yourself into the left hemisphere of your brain systematically, which is about analysis and linear thinking and information, how to and what.
Being bored is shoving yourself into the left brain?
You're vacating the right hemisphere.
This is based on the work of Ian McGilchrist, who talks about hemispheric lateralization.
The right side of your brain is the why side, the mystery and the meaning side.
You will literally not be able to assess questions of the meaning of your life if you're never bored.
That's a problem.
And the fact is, you know, people always say, why are young people so depressed and anxious?
Why are people under 30, especially women, so depressed and anxious?
Oh, it's a big mystery.
It must be because baby boomers have driven up the price of apartments, right?
Or because of income inequality.
It's nonsense.
Yeah.
You know, it's nonsense.
That's ridiculous.
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