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Doctor Mike

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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8866 total appearances

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And guess what?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Depression and anxiety assume.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

My belief is that the big problem with depression and anxiety, especially for people under 30 today, is they don't know the meaning of life and they don't even know where to look.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Well, the meaning of life is defined as a combination of why things happen the way they do.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

That's coherence.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Why you're doing what you're doing, which is your purpose, and why your life matters, which is significance.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And they don't even know how to address those issues in the first place because you only take on those big philosophical questions in the right hemisphere of your brain.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And all the time you're spending on your devices, not to mention the hustle culture and the grind and the technical culture that we live in, is just pushing us to live exclusively on the left hemisphere of our brain.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

We're living in the matrix, Mike.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

They're doing that because that's what's on offer, number one.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

That's how we work and how we're educated.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

That's number two.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Number three is we're addicted because the technologies that we use are highly addictive.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And number four is that we've learned how to solve the life's biggest problem, which is boredom.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And we need to be bored.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Well, yeah, for sure.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

That's why they do it.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

That's why time and app is the number one metric when you're developing a technology.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

When you want somebody to download your app, time and app is how you monetize everything.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

But the truth is, this is highly, highly, highly addictive.