Arthur Brooks
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208 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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These are people who are more likely to say that they're searching for their calling in their work, not just a paycheck.
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These are people who tend to be more religious or at least more philosophical than other people.
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They're looking for something transcendent.
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These are people who have a lot of beauty in their lives, moral beauty, natural beauty, artistic beauty, which is largely bereft of many people's lives when they're working indoors all day long.
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And last but not least, these are the people who are not afraid to suffer.
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They don't believe in the therapy industrial complex that tells young people today that suffering means that something's wrong with you, that if you're sad, it means you're broken.
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We need to eliminate your suffering.
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They say, no, man, that's part.
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That's part of being fully alive.
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So young people that are immune from this problem, they do those six things.
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it depends on it goes from person to person even from culture to culture as a matter of fact you know the all of those worldwide happiness surveys that they look at the happiest countries they're basically nonsense by the way because people answer the happiness questions in different ways and case in point is that when they go to the nordic countries that always score on top of these happiness indices the reason that they say yeah i'm really happy is because they they believe that they're very contented
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that they have a strong sense of ongoing satisfaction now the reason mike that you don't feel that way it feels more episodic to you is because well i'm just going to guess that your grandparents or great-grandparents were immigrants and one of the things that we know from the research is that people who come from immigrant stock i don't know where the carruthers family from scotland that makes sense yeah scotland there you go of course i should have known that
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They came here because they were not contented people and they have discontented kids and discontented grandkids, which makes you really successful.
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You could have done something conventional, but now I think I'm going to start a really popular podcast.
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That's an odd thing to do.
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Contented people don't do weird stuff like that.
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So the truth of the matter is that we're all different with respect to how easy it is to maintain a sense of the satisfaction.
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One point, however, that's worth pointing out for everybody, whether you're a person with a burr under his saddle or you're somebody who just like who really likes that comfy couch.
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And that is that that satisfaction is more enduring and more efficiently attained, not when we do what people typically do, which is I'll be satisfied when I have more.
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