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

And if I have more and more and more sooner or later, I'm going to have enough because that's wrong when it comes to money and power and pleasure and fame particularly. matched

The answer is when you can learn how to want less, then satisfaction can be yours more, no matter who you are. matched

Real satisfaction is all the things that you have divided by all the things that you want. matched

Haves divided by wants. matched

The secret to more enduring satisfaction for all people is managing the denominator by wanting less as opposed to having more. matched

happy. matched

Yeah, for sure. matched

And your happiness does fluctuate. matched

What fluctuates even more is your unhappiness. matched

And so you'll find people who are in general very happy people who have episodes of extreme unhappiness because that's normal. matched

That's how we're evolved. matched

We're evolved to feel kind of mild happiness and intense unhappiness. matched

That's the reason that the Brooks's and the Carruthers of the world, they exist today because their ancestors were able to pass on their genes. matched

The reason that your ancestors passed on your genes is because that intense unhappiness when there was a major threat, it got their attention. matched

They didn't get eaten by a leopard as a result of that. matched

So they've passed on the tendency for people to feel intensely unhappy from time to time, even if they're otherwise extremely happy people. matched

This is one of the things that I always talk about with my students. matched

Look, as a matter of fact, we have a test. matched

on the intensity of your happiness and your unhappiness. matched

And I find that a lot of very unhappy people have also intense periods of unhappiness. matched

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