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Lewis Howes

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The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

That's all you need to know, men and women, right?

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

But altogether, more than half of the people gave themselves pain over boredom.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

We solved the boredom problem.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

Your iPhone is the solution to your boredom problem, your device.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

The problem is that it makes your brain work wrong because when you're never bored, you don't use what's called the default mode networks that are structures in your brain.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

and you won't find meaning, you'll be on the wrong side of your brain all day long.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

And so if you wake up and the first thing is your phone next to your bed, big mistake, and you look at your phone, then your brain is programmed to that for the rest of the day, and so you're looking at it while you're having your coffee and breakfast, and then you go to work, which is in your guest room, which is a Zoom screen,

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

And then you're going to date by swiping right, right?

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

And then your friends are a lot of them, mostly on social media.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

And then you do a lot of gaming because that's how you get your sense of fun and accomplishment.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

And then you're 12 hours a day online.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

And guess what you don't have?

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

There's one thing.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

That's a simulated life.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

That's the matrix.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

That movie was popular, I'm gonna shock you.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

20 years ago, right?

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

1999.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

I know.

The School of Greatness
How Faith, Neuroscience, and Meaning Work Together | Arthur Brooks

Is he right?