Arthur Brooks
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984 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, I mean, it's a solitary, shameful thing to do because it's pleasure, never enjoyment.
So the same thing is true, by the way, even with highly glycemic carbohydrates, which are highly addictive, people tend to snack and eat them alone.
Wow.
And they go, you're stressed out, you go home and you eat by yourself.
And so there should be, it's a good rule of thumb not to even eat a lot, as a matter of fact, such that you're eating, which should be an inherently social and enjoyable thing to do, leads to happiness.
Okay, so that's enjoyment.
Satisfaction?
Satisfaction is a really paradoxical one.
Satisfaction is the joy of an accomplishment with struggle.
um only homo sapiens want pain only homo sapiens want suffering because that's how you understand what's proportional to your accomplishment if you don't have to give something up for what you're doing you will get no sweetness from it if my students they if they cheat on my exams they will get no satisfaction from the a
And you look back on your life and you think about the hard things that you've done and you ponder the hardness and that gives you the sweetness.
That's how satisfaction works.
That's why your kids are little, right?
Yeah.
And your kids are a little older?
You don't have kids.
Okay.
So they're really little.
Okay.
I knew you just had a baby, right?
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