Arthur Brooks
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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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Your wife just had a baby.
So four is just old enough that you can tell them to wait until dinner.
Right?
That's when you start doing it.
Three, if they're hungry, you take the opportunity and give them some food.
By four, you're starting to space out their meals a little bit for proper nutrition.
Yeah.
But the big lesson from that is that you want them to come to dinner hungry because they're learning about life.
If you're teaching them that good things come to those who wait, you don't enjoy your food if you snack all day.
This is actually one of the big reasons that how we sacrifice happiness is through snacking.
Snacking destroys the satisfaction that we actually get from meals and putting food in our mouth is one of the great sources of happiness for people.
has the enjoyment part, which is the social part, but there's the anticipation part, which is the satisfaction part of eating.
And so that's why you say, no, you can't have an ice cream at 4.30 in the afternoon.
And what you're really saying to Junior is I want you to suffer.
It just doesn't sound good.
And so that's important.
And then, because then their little synaptically plastic brains learn this lesson that they should put on, they should defer their gratifications.
That's part of being a mature person who actually knows how to produce satisfaction and this happiness.
Now it gets weirder when you get the thing that you're deferring your gratification for, because your primeval brain says that then you'll be super happy.
but you're not.
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