Your Brain Has 2 Selves. Tech Hijacked the Wrong One | Arthur Brooks

Your brain is designed to ask all the big why questions on the right and then to solve how to and what questions on the left. And the reason people are depressed today is because they're avoiding the big right side questions. The whole culture of technology and hustle and grind and online presence is all about staying in the left hemisphere of the brain. That's the reason that people don't know the meaning of their lives. He's a Harvard professor, international

keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author. He spent the past two decades studying and teaching the art and science of happiness to millions of people, Dr. Arthur Brooks in the house. 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 never came home and said to great grandma, I had a panic attack

behind the mule today. It's laughable. How could someone start going to the right side of their brain to find more meaning and purpose in their life rather than stress and chaos? Yeah. So to begin with, we have two kinds of dilemmas as human beings.

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