Arthur Brooks

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984 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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So that's where the problem begins.

Everybody wants to be happy, but they can't figure out how to become happy.

And there's a lot of metaphysics to that, too.

I mean, the fact that we can't be happy, but we believe that we can and we strive all of our lives suggests happiness.

that it does exist, that true unremitting happiness actually exists, just not in this life.

In much the same way that thirst presupposes the existence of water,

But metaphysics aside, people want it, and one of the reasons they can't find it in this life is because they don't know what it is.

They think it's a feeling, and they want this feeling of happiness, and that's where we actually all go astray.

I wanna feel happy all the time.

The limbic system of your brain is not made for you to feel happiness all the time.

It's made for you to feel misery a lot, as a matter of fact.

Negative emotions, of which there's only four, fear, anger, disgust, and sadness, they exist to keep you alive and out of the jaws of a tiger.

Sadness is so you won't say those things inside your head and have your wife leave you summarily.

You know, this is what...

is behind your survival is actually negative experiences and negative emotions.

And yet people don't want them.

And that conflict, I want something I can't get.

I want that particular feeling.

That's the problem.

So you have to define it in the right way.

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