Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
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If I'm running a company and I see some problem that I can avoid, I have a problematic loud mouth employee who's lighting me up on the Slack channel,
I'll fire them.
I'm getting rid of pain.
I'm not gonna have non-resistance to that because it's not right for me to practice non-resistance in the lives of other people, right?
There's all kinds of cases where judgment requires that you understand which lever you're gonna try to work.
But if you only think there's one lever, which we are telling young people that there's only one lever, that pain, that depression, that sadness, that melancholy, that anxiety, that loneliness is evidence that you're broken,
No, it's evidence you're alive.
It's evidence that you're, I tell my students, look, you're studying at Harvard University.
If you're not sad and anxious, you need therapy.
The truth is that's a really good and normal thing.
And so don't go to somebody who says, oh, you're sad and anxious.
We got to fix that.
No, you got to manage that.
You got to live with that.
You have to understand the balance between pain and non-resistance to pain such that the suffering is what it's supposed to be.
Yeah, for sure.
That is the hardest thing, by the way.
That is the hardest thing.
And people do deal with it with gratitude.
The ultimate long-term way to deal with that grief, grief is the unremitting sadness, unremitting sadness.
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