Arthur Brooks

And the way to do this is not to say what's your idol, but to eliminate the ones that they're not your idol. Okay. Do you want to play? Sure. Okay. Sure. So money, power, pleasure, honor. And honor is not what we say with my marine children, which is to serve with honor. That means to be honored. Yeah, the narcissistic gratification.

Yeah, so that means fame or what we have in academia, which is prestige, to walk in and people say, oh, this is Jordan Peterson. He wrote that paper. You know, that paper that got the award last year or whatever it happens to be. Or the admiration of strangers or the admiration of the right group of people, right? Which we want. It's your lobsters, right? That raises serotonin levels.

Yeah, so that means fame or what we have in academia, which is prestige, to walk in and people say, oh, this is Jordan Peterson. He wrote that paper. You know, that paper that got the award last year or whatever it happens to be. Or the admiration of strangers or the admiration of the right group of people, right? Which we want. It's your lobsters, right? That raises serotonin levels.

Yeah, so that means fame or what we have in academia, which is prestige, to walk in and people say, oh, this is Jordan Peterson. He wrote that paper. You know, that paper that got the award last year or whatever it happens to be. Or the admiration of strangers or the admiration of the right group of people, right? Which we want. It's your lobsters, right? That raises serotonin levels.

Okay, so think of those four. And then let's think of the one you would first eliminate, which doesn't mean you don't have it at all, but rather that you have the population mean. level of it. So you've got rid of money, for example, you wouldn't be poor. You just have exactly the population mean amount of that. So you wouldn't be in, there would be no deprivation whatsoever.

Okay, so think of those four. And then let's think of the one you would first eliminate, which doesn't mean you don't have it at all, but rather that you have the population mean. level of it. So you've got rid of money, for example, you wouldn't be poor. You just have exactly the population mean amount of that. So you wouldn't be in, there would be no deprivation whatsoever.

Okay, so think of those four. And then let's think of the one you would first eliminate, which doesn't mean you don't have it at all, but rather that you have the population mean. level of it. So you've got rid of money, for example, you wouldn't be poor. You just have exactly the population mean amount of that. So you wouldn't be in, there would be no deprivation whatsoever.

Money, power, pleasure, fame. Which one do you kick away?

Money, power, pleasure, fame. Which one do you kick away?

Money, power, pleasure, fame. Which one do you kick away?

Why?

Why?

Why?

So if I were to, you're the clinical psychologist and I'm just a working class economist, but I would say that the reason for that is because you hate when people have power over you.

So if I were to, you're the clinical psychologist and I'm just a working class economist, but I would say that the reason for that is because you hate when people have power over you.

So if I were to, you're the clinical psychologist and I'm just a working class economist, but I would say that the reason for that is because you hate when people have power over you.

I hate being told what to do. Not everybody hates that. Yes, I understand that. People who really like power actually are not bothered that much when people have power over them because it feels legitimate inherently. So it's kind of an interesting thing. So you find that totalitarians are pretty comfortable when they're in totalitarian systems. They would just like to be the totalitarian.

I hate being told what to do. Not everybody hates that. Yes, I understand that. People who really like power actually are not bothered that much when people have power over them because it feels legitimate inherently. So it's kind of an interesting thing. So you find that totalitarians are pretty comfortable when they're in totalitarian systems. They would just like to be the totalitarian.

I hate being told what to do. Not everybody hates that. Yes, I understand that. People who really like power actually are not bothered that much when people have power over them because it feels legitimate inherently. So it's kind of an interesting thing. So you find that totalitarians are pretty comfortable when they're in totalitarian systems. They would just like to be the totalitarian.

Right, right, right. Dictators admire dictators.