2026-04-06
6 分钟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,