finding a meaning for life despite pessimism
Dharmapunx NYC
josh korda
4.8 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | yourself in. So when we go to a movie with our friends, if we do that, imagine that you've done that. |
| 0:11.0 | So you go to a movie and you see the film and then afterwards we get out and |
| 0:15.2 | what do we do we tend to talk about what we thought the movie meant. What the message was, |
| 0:20.5 | what's it all about? What was the point of that why did I spend |
| 0:23.8 | fifteen dollars i don't know how much moving costs how much fifteen |
| 0:27.1 | dollars why did i spend |
| 0:30.0 | fifteen dollars on that art Artsy Yugoslavian film. |
| 0:36.8 | So we look for a meaning. |
| 0:39.2 | The left hemisphere of the brain tends to struggle when it's presented with a long sequence of |
| 0:45.9 | narrative events that don't go here into an underlying interpretable coherent theme that we can walk away with. |
| 0:55.1 | We like messages, we like underlying meanings |
| 1:00.9 | that help us to get a handle or a grip to interpret experience. When |
| 1:09.1 | you look at fMRI scans when people see or create order amidst chaos their brains release |
| 1:17.8 | left hemispheres, trigilaries of dopamine, a reward, makes you feel good, but if you can't interpret or find a coherent pattern |
| 1:26.9 | or message or meaning then the brain struggles and eventually quite often cortisol and other stress hormones and neurotransmitters. |
| 1:39.7 | So we have an inherent disposition to look, especially in the, because we make sense of life in the |
| 1:49.0 | left hemisphere where our thoughts are, we are storytelling narrative-making beings. |
| 1:56.8 | Right hemisphere creates positive emotions through connection, left hemisphere through meaning. |
| 2:05.7 | So numerous, it's not surprising that numerous studies have shown from Sandra |
| 2:12.4 | Leibamorski and Jonathan Haight and the positive psychologist in the 1980s |
| 2:17.8 | to Hill and Turiano Carleton University University the fact that we feel better when we can express easily a meaning |
| 2:30.7 | for our life. We like it when we can verbalize and express this is why I am having |
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