Lewis Howes

That's the predictor.

So then you start talking to them and figure out how they live.

And it turns out that life dramatically changed after about 2008.

Social media?

Yeah.

We're living the punishment voluntarily.

Here's the weird thing about it.

Here's what's crazy about when you're living in the wrong side of your brain because you're living in the matrix.

You're living in the simulation of ordinary life.

Your great-grandfather, like great-grandpa House, never came home and said to great-grandma, I had a panic attack behind a mule today.

It's laughable because his brain was working the way it's supposed to work.

And here's the weirder part.

His moment-to-moment life was actually pretty boring because he was behind that mule, but his life wasn't boring.

A lot of young people today who are living in the matrix, living in the left hemispheres of their brains, moment-to-moment, they have zero boredom, but their life is grindingly boring.

See, that's the thing.

There's the micro-boredom and the meta-boredom.

And that's the way to think about it.

To say, have I eradicated boredom from my life, but my life is actually boring?

Then you know you're on the wrong side.

And you'll never find meaning until you can break out of that.