Something Is Very Wrong With Modern Life - Arthur Brooks

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Here’s the timestamps:
0:00 Are We Living in a Simulation?
6:42 What Are We Mistaking For Real Meaning?
11:00 Why Can’t Meaning Be Simulated?
15:30 The Most Meaningless Day Imaginable
19:29 Are Ambitious People Susceptible to Meaninglessness?
22:00 Are We Just Pursuing Approval?
30:24 The Big Questions Everyone Should Be Asking
34:33 Why Life Feels So Random
36:07 Why Are Directionless People So Fragile?
37:50 Why We Confuse Fame With Significance
41:12 How Your Weaknesses Become Strengths
52:59 Stop Blaming Your Parents
54:51 How Technology is Rewiring Our Brains
01:03:47 How to Escape the Doom Loop
01:10:19 Can You Recover From Meaninglessness?
01:14:51 How Important is Love to Meaning?
01:16:50 The Ladder of Love Explained
01:21:04 Should We Be Thinking About Transcendence More?
01:24:38 Why is Transcendence So Rare?
01:27:27 The Truth About Finding Your Calling
01:32:02 Why Changing Direction Feels So Scary
01:34:35 The Surprising Role of Beauty in Meaning
01:37:08 Is Suffering the Ultimate Meaning?
01:39:01 The Modern Unhappiness Crisis
01:47:09 How to Build a More Meaningful Life
01:53:02 Where to Find Arthur

I found my meaning through gardening. I only grow White Widow and Wedding Cake, buy fuck its hard and that's what gives you meaning. I vape what I grow to forget that meaning. lol

Chris W must be quoting Mark Zuckerburg.. for real 4 reals

1:30:55

13:30 "They have all of these exogenous economic explanations for this stuff. These are all wrong is what it comes down to. Since 2008, when life has become increasingly online and we, you know, the average American is now checking her his phone 205 times a day, what you've done is you shoved yourself into the wrong hemisphere of your brain. And in so doing, you haven't been able to naturally experience this meaning. And that's what leads empirically, that's what actually leads people to feel empty, to feel depressed, to feel anxious, to actually feel lonely."

@drarthurbrooks

Can you actually affirm that those "exogenous" economic explanations are all wrong?
Aren't depression, anxiety or loneliness, from a social perspective, complex enough as to dismiss the influence of those contextual factors?

If you want to start a business you need to be on the screen all day, the alghoritm dictates you have to post constantly...., everything is online, how do you solve that???😮

Very valuable points thanks guys 😁🙏❤️

Let’s all get flip phones or Above phones
and end this sh*t!

we are literally rotting ourselves stupid with the phones exactly how they want us to be scrolling and getting dumber 😢😢😢

This is your life it doesn't get any better than this. This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

My parents are to blame for the impacts their divorce had on my life. I had no choice in that.

But at the point I realized those issues, it is my choice and agency to work through those issues.

Something Is Very Wrong With Modern Life? You’re just figuring that out now?

“One man's pornography is another man's theology.”
― Clive Barker

This strange feeling of restlessness, loneliness, and a spooky feeling showed up last April. Since then I’ve watched people struggle with anxiety who don’t really have anxiety. I’ve watched the best people I know struggle to find someone to date at all. I’ve watched this feeling of wanting to just run away happen. Something is not right here.

And I’m here eating my lunch while watching this video 😂 1:11:11

Damn, Arthur Brooks described my life almost exactly...

The melancholy at ground level is very different from the melancholy at 30000 feet. The emotion may be the same but the location, very different!

1999... Matrix...just turned 21...clubs full of ladies...no social media except Myspace just started. Those were the days

All models are wrong, only some are useful... left/right brain model is such an oversimplification as to hardly be useful

Come to Taiwan and you will see EVERYONE eating with their phones. Entire families as well. They call it "culture".

Anything worth doing takes effort. Too many people live passive existences and have abandoned personal sovereignty. It's impossible to have satisfying and meaningful interactions with people if you're chasing clicks, likes and follows. Put down the fucking palm pilot, go outside and say hi to your weird neighbor.

Fun fact- In the 1999 movie The Matrix, the expiration date on Neo’s driver’s license is September 11. 2001

Strong

boomers and anti-phone propaganda is like anti-smoking boomers!