Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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Happiness is a combination of enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.
Try to understand how to enjoy your life, how to achieve satisfaction in your achievements and accomplishments, and understand deeply the why of your existence.
And then happiness will find you.
The biggest mistake people make about enjoyment is thinking that it's the same thing as pleasure.
And the pursuit of pleasure does not lead to happiness.
The pursuit of pleasure leads to rehab.
A lot of young people today will go for every crazy activist scheme because they're screaming out for meaning because they don't naturally experience it.
They're completely numb.
And so they get involved in forms of very, very performative activism because it makes them feel alive, maybe for the first time in a long time.
The four idols are money, power, pleasure, and fame.
I teach MBA students at Harvard, and I have a game called What's My Idol?
And they're usually wrong.
They think it's one thing and it isn't.
But if you know you have unbelievable power, why?
Because you know it will beguile you, and it will distract you from what you truly want.
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Arthur Brooks, welcome to Trigonometry.
Thank you.
I love the show.
I'm a regular, long-time listener, first-time guest.
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