Lewis Howes

So I start asking them and they start talking about meaning.

It's like, I don't know what I'm meant to do.

I mean, I'm going through, I'm studying this and doing that and trying to get a good job.

But my life feels meaningless.

And saying my life feels meaningless is the best predictor of depression and anxiety for people under 35.

Saying that.

Saying that.

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.