Arthur Brooks

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TRIGGERnometry · Why Crazy Activism is Taking Over the West — Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

I need that suffering.

I need that full experience.

I want a bite out of life.

I want to be fully alive.

And this is one of the reasons that suffering, which is a largely right hemispheric experience, makes people understand the meaning of their lives.

If I go back through your life, if we went back, if I were your therapist, which I don't do clinical work, if we went back year after year after year, and I would say, tell me the formative moments, you wouldn't say, oh yeah, that beach vacation in Ibiza.

no you tell me about when that person passed away when that woman that you loved wasn't there when when when something that you wanted didn't happen and then you understood who you were because you survived and you understood something through your suffering that's critically critically important and there's no suffering in the matrix we i mean we need to i make my students say my suffering is sacred and they have this little mantra that i give them to wake up each morning

whether they're on their knees or not, and to say, I'm truly grateful for the things that are going to happen this day.

You know, the Psalm, this is the day that the Lord has made.

I will rejoice and be glad in it.

But I will also rejoice and be glad in the suffering I'm going to face this day and the setbacks I'm going to face this day.

Bring it on.

That's a life fully alive.

And there's something to that, isn't there?

There's something to that.

People are not afraid of breaking up because of the pain it's going to bring, but because they're afraid of the pain per se.

I mean, I didn't say that right.

You know, pain isn't a problem.

Our fear of pain is the problem.

And by the way, we're evolved for that.

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