Arthur Brooks

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491 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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The Rubin Report · How to Use AI Without Damaging Your Brain, the Science of Looksmaxxing & Leisure | Arthur Brooks · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

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Now you can do that. matched

And there's a very famous experiment that Art Aaron, the great social psychologist at Stony Brook did, where that was the 36 questions experiment that everybody, most people know about now, where you ask each other a series of 36 questions that escalate in intimacy. matched

And then you stare into each other's eyes silently for four straight minutes in that particular exercise. matched

And when strangers did this, they all felt like they were falling in love matched

You know, two of the strangers in the original experiment got married, actually. matched

I mean, not that day, but it's an amazing thing, actually, how efficacious the, you know, our brains are. matched

We got to respect the biology, man, is how this works. matched

And so I recommend this strongly. matched

You can't do it. matched

The saddest thing I've ever seen are pictures of couples looking at their phones, scrolling social media in bed. matched

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No, it's really, I mean, we do this a lot. matched

My wife and I, we do this a lot and we read to each other a lot. matched

I mean, we read the Psalms. matched

We read love poetry to each other. matched

We don't read, you know, the new for Pete's sake. matched

I mean, I, matched

I know, it's like, hey, guess what Trump did? matched

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