Arthur C. Brooks

I mean, you need to go out and get food and figure out how to get to work.

And the right side of your brain tells you why you'd want to do that.

Like, because I have people that I love that I want to support.

The problem is modern life is shoving us into the left side of the brain and making the why questions harder and harder and harder to answer.

And the more time you're spending online...

The more time you're spending with your devices and with your screens, the less likely you are to be even considering questions of love, happiness, mystery, and meaning in your life.

And you went away on vacation and put down your devices and picked up a book and you were talking to actual humans and having eye contact like we're having right now.

And it's like, why do you feel whole?

Because your whole brain was working actually.

Oh yeah, no.

Our brains are still, we're really in their current state about 250,000 years ago, the beginning of the Pleistocene.

And they haven't changed very much.

And we're made to live in small bands of 30 to 50 individuals.

We are?

Yeah, we are.

I mean, our brains are kind of evolved for us to work properly when we're in small groups where we know each other, we talk, we look at each other in the eyes, we eat together.

You're gnawing on a piece of yak meat while you're talking about your day.

We're not made to eat, you know.

Door dash in front of the, while you're watching Netflix.

We're not made to do that.