Arthur Brooks
speaker
208 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you bear up under it?
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Do you learn from it?
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Do you grow from it?
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Or you just try to eliminate it and run away from it.
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that's the wrong strategy and it leads to a whole lot of misery.
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Well, it's a good question because you do need to decompose happiness and have as a strategy things in your life that will bring you greater enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.
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That's how you can understand what your objectives actually are to say, today, I'm going to go pursue happiness.
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That's just too big.
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That's just too diffuse, as a matter of fact.
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But on the other hand, if you say, I'm going to manage my pleasure so they don't manage me.
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That's a question of enjoyment.
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I'm going to defer my gratifications and set my sights on bigger things that I'm going to find satisfying.
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And I'm going to go in search of the meaning of life today.
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And there's a whole bunch of ways to do that.
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That's what I write about a lot.
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Then happiness will find you because you've decomposed it into its component parts and pursued the right things.
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And so give
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me.
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No, I understand.
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