Your 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.

And the reason people are depressed today is because they're avoiding

the big right side questions.

The whole culture of technology and hustle and grind and online presence

is all about staying in the left hemisphere of the brain.

That's the reason that people don't know the meaning of their lives. He's a Harvard professor, international keynote speaker, New York Times best-selling author. He spent the past two decades studying and teaching the art and science of happiness to millions of people. Dr. Arthur Brooks in the house. 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 never came home

and said to great-grandma, I had a panic attack behind the mule today. It's laughable.

How could someone start going to the rights of their brain to find more meaning and purpose

in their life rather than stress and chaos?

Yeah.

So to begin with...

We have two kinds of dilemmas as human beings.

We have complicated dilemmas and complex dilemmas in life.

Two kinds of problems.

Complicated problems are the how-to and what problems that we're dealing with all day long. Like how do I get from Orange County to Los Angeles, which I was dealing with this morning, right? Or how do I, you know, how do I, you know, think about the next five years of the School of Greatness podcast, which we were talking about, such an interesting, complicated problem, how to and what problems but those aren't the

problems that you care about because what are we really talking about we were talking about

your babies and your marriage and your faith those are complex problems which are impossible to

solve they're easy to understand impossible to to solve, you only live with them.

And the reason is, believe it or not, these two types of problems are processed in different

hemispheres of the brain. This is a theory called hemispheric lateralization, which is a fancy

way of saying the right side and the left side do different things. The left side does complicated

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