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

And that, you know, for you and me, you and I are family men. matched

You and I are, you know, we have pair bonds and children and matched

And in my case, grandchildren. matched

And that's what he would consider to be leisure. matched

But you have to take it seriously. matched

You have to take deepening those relationships with a certain seriousness. matched

He would say that me going to mass as a Catholic is a leisure activity. matched

That me reading a book, you know, reading the Brothers Karamazov, which I don't have to read for work, that would be a form of leisure as well. matched

That's as important as work and as important as rest, as sleep. matched

Yeah, no, I get that. matched

And actually you are doing something, which is that you're going through your files. matched

You're going through your mental files. matched

You're taking an inventory and you're doing something. matched

It's actually a generative activity. matched

What's real hard for me is to lay on the beach and actually just try to go into the nothingness. matched

That's a really tricky thing to do. matched

But it's actually quite interesting. matched

The research on even doing that suggests that that can be a generative activity. matched

That's the importance of what we would think of as boredom. matched

An undistracted state is really critical too. matched

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