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Max Lugavere

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The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Because your gut shouldn't be the boss of you.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Enjoy.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Okay, so coherence.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Yeah, coherence.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

There's another way to think about it.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Meaning is the why, purpose is the what.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

You're doing it.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

My why is I think I...

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

I aspire to ease suffering in the world because I've seen suffering so, and I know suffering so intimately with what I experienced with my mom.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

And so you can't forget going through that experience.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

And it's just left such a,

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

a scar on me.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

And so everything I do is really filtered through that lens.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Like every sentence I publicly put out, whether it's in a throwaway Instagram caption, in my stories, it's all through the lens of,

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

You know, does this have the ability to transmute some truth in some way that ultimately might play a role in reducing suffering for somebody who's receiving it?

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

yeah yeah right yeah there's joy in the work for sure i know that's one of your the the four that's transcendence yeah yeah that's transcendence yeah exactly the four tent poles of um friends work family faith faith of transcendence right you transcend yourself by serving the world that's one of the ways that people do that who are who don't aren't even necessarily religious but if you transcend you by looking outward at the world and serving the world

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

life becomes much better and more meaningful you will use the right hemisphere of your brain if you stop looking at yourself trying to solve your own problems and you start doing things that actually spread love and happiness to the rest of the world i love it yeah do you think there's a gendered aspect to this because when you were describing the fact that society has become so hyper fixated on solving problems it reminds me of when i've had like relationship experts on the on the podcast and they talk about you know one of the big disconnects between men and women in relationship is that

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Sometimes women, when they offload their problems, where men default to is like, okay, how can I fix these problems?

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

Whereas women, what they typically are seeking is what I've heard.

The Genius Life
563: Why Your Life Feels Meaningless Even If You’re Doing Everything Right | Arthur Brooks, PhD

I'm not a woman, obviously.