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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

Manage your emotions so they don't manage you.

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

Sometimes that's hard, though.

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

I mean, I, you know, I wake up sometimes and I am very... It's hard to peel myself out of bed.

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

I just feel...

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

You know, unmotivated, I know I'm aware of the fleeting nature of motivation.

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

But even so, you know, I check my phone.

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

I'm just like, oh, I got to do everything I did yesterday again today.

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

It's like, how?

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

Yeah, I'm a compulsive creator.

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

I was actually, I was looking over something, a musical piece that I created 13 years ago.

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

That's still on YouTube in the catacombs of my YouTube channel.

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

It's called How to Be Emotionally Stable Without Getting Bored.

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

And it's an article that I read

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

on a website called Thought Catalog 13 years ago.

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

It's like a, it's prose, you know, it's not, article is the wrong way to describe it.

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

It was just like this really beautiful piece that I read on this website, this random website.

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

And it read as music to me.

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

And so I turned it into a song of sorts on my YouTube channel, how to remain emotionally stable without getting bored or how to be emotionally stable without getting bored.

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

And I produced it 13 years ago before I went through, you know, what I went through with my mom and all that stuff.

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

But it reminded me last night of my, I guess of my nature, you know?