Arthur Brooks

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208 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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Something You Should Know · How Do You Create Happiness? & Why Dogs Behave the Way They Do · 21 Aug 2025 podcast

For satisfaction, you need to defer your gratifications, delay feeling good right now. matched

And for meaning, of course, you need to pass through all kinds of negative experiences so you can know the meaning of your life. matched

And here's the weird thing that people come to understand once they really, really get good at happiness. matched

It encompasses, it covers, it requires a whole lot of suffering. matched

For you to get happier, you have to learn how to be unhappy along the way. matched

Is that kind of like matched

That's like a lot of things in life. matched

And that's a that's a good analogy to be sure. matched

You won't enjoy your dinner unless you're hungry. matched

And that's one of the ways that we actually teach one of these lessons specifically about satisfaction to our kids. matched

You know, when you're a parent, which most of the people listening to us are or will be at some point. matched

And let's say that you're you know, you pick your kid up from Little League practice and you're driving home at 430 in the afternoon, you drive by the Dairy Queen and the kid starts whining. matched

i want an ice cream we won the game let's get an ice cream and you say no and they say why because they're smart and you say because you're going to spoil your dinner so they say so what and then you lie at this point you lie to your kid you say that's not good for you to spoil your dinner that way that might be true but that's not the main reason what you want is for them to enjoy their dinner and the only way they're going to enjoy the dinner is they get to dinner hungry and matched

And therein, you're not just worried about their satisfaction and their enjoyment. matched

You want them to learn a life lesson that when they delay their gratifications and they suffer a little bit, life is sweeter along the way. matched

You're teaching them to suffer so that life will be better. matched

And that's just one of the great secrets to life. matched

You don't have to go out in search of suffering, by the way. matched

It will find you. matched

The question is, what do you do when it does find you? matched

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