Lewis Howes

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.

I have a colleague at Harvard, a guy named Dan Gilbert.

You ever had Dan Gilbert on the show?

I haven't, but I know the name.

You know him, right?

He's the world's leading expert on boredom.

He's a visionary social psychologist.

He's the best in the business.

And he's done these experiments where you bring people into the lab, young people, like undergraduates, they do anything for 20 bucks, right?

And he makes them sit in a room where there's nothing on the walls, nothing to do, completely silent.

They have one choice besides sitting there quietly, whether they have a little key fob with a button on it.

If you touch the button, you self administer a painful electric shock.

I don't know how he got through this.

This through the internal review board, right?