You're Living In The Matrix And Don't Know It | Arthur Brooks

你生活在矩阵之中却浑然不觉 | 亚瑟·布鲁克斯

The Daily Motivation

2026-04-06

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Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1908DM Your great-grandfather never came home and told great-grandma he had a panic attack behind the mule. His brain worked the way it was supposed to. Arthur Brooks breaks down the difference between micro boredom and meta boredom. No moment-to-moment boredom, but a life that feels completely empty. That's the trap most people are living in right now. A Harvard study found more than half of people chose to give themselves electric shocks rather than sit in silence for a few minutes. We will literally hurt ourselves to avoid stillness. Our phones solved the boredom problem perfectly. The cost? We never use the part of the brain that creates meaning. We're living the punishment voluntarily. And most of us don't even know it. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

  • I saw a video recently, speaking of being on my device,

  • but I saw a video talking about a guy who 's probably in his 40s,

  • probably around my age with, I do n't know, 8, 9, 10-year-old son having a conversation.

  • And he said, you know what our punishment used to be growing up, you know, back in the 80s and 90s?

  • Staying inside.

  • Not being able to go outside was our punishment.

  • And the son was like, what do you mean?

  • I want to be a punishment for me because I want to be on my phone or computer or on like video games all day.

  • 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.

  • They might have had hard days and stress, but not this type of stress.

  • 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.

  • A lot of young people today who are living in the matrix, living in the left hemispheres of their brains,