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

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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.

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