Arthur Brooks

Thanks, Ed.

But that's a word, it almost doesn't have a translation.

And my daughter taught it to me, actually.

It means to not feel, to feel eerily out of place, to not feel comfortable in your home.

Like something's not right and you can't quite put your finger on it.

And we know that, you know, something's creepy, you go into a room and

everybody's acting real weird or whatever it happens to be and you know something's not right and and the reason i brought that word out in in the beginning of this new book the meaning of your life is because that's how i felt um uh just a very few years ago i i'm an old college professor i mean that's i've been i got my phd 30 years ago and i taught for a long time and then i left to run a company just to see if i could actually do it and i ran the company for 11 years

And then I retired and came back to academia.

And I kind of thought I was going to find universities the way that I'd left them.

I left the university in 2008 and it was happy.

I mean, it was a happier part of life.

Everybody was ambitious and getting along and falling in love and making friends.

And I mean, like you remember college, right, Ed?

Yeah.

College was a blast.

I came back in 2019 and man, it was unheimlich.

It was like something wasn't right.

It was creepy.

I mean, people were sad and angry.

Depression had tripled.