Your Brain Has 2 Selves. Tech Hijacked the Wrong One | Arthur Brooks
Mar 30, 2026 · 1h 40m · YouTube
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0:00Your 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.
0:06And the reason people are depressed today is because they're avoiding the big right side questions.
0:12The whole culture of technology and hustle and grind and online presence is all about staying in the left hemisphere of your brain.
0:19That's the reason that people don't know the meaning of their lives.
0:22He's a Harvard professor, international keynote speaker, New York Times best-selling author.
0:26He spent the past two decades studying and teaching the art and science of happiness to millions of people.
0:30Dr.
0:31Arthur Brooks in the house.
0:32Here's what's crazy about when you're living in the wrong side of your brain because you're living in the matrix.
0:37You're living in the simulation of ordinary life.
0:40Your great-grandfather never came home and said to great-grandma, I had a panic attack behind the mule today.
0:49It's laughable.
0:50How 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?
0:55Yeah.
0:56So to begin with, we have two kinds of dilemmas as human beings.
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