Arthur Brooks

this that's what tempts me and i know it's true and i know i have that particular tendency and that knowledge is power why because that knowledge is being stored in the episodic memory of my hippocampus and it's accessible by my prefrontal cortex and i can use it to manage my limbic system and that's that's being fully alive As far as I'm concerned, that's being fully alive.

And when my students understand that, they can not just avoid errors, they can feel like they have control. They can feel like they have a sword and shield on their hero's journey.

And when my students understand that, they can not just avoid errors, they can feel like they have control. They can feel like they have a sword and shield on their hero's journey.

And when my students understand that, they can not just avoid errors, they can feel like they have control. They can feel like they have a sword and shield on their hero's journey.

So I, among other things, we talk about the process of discernment.

So I, among other things, we talk about the process of discernment.

So I, among other things, we talk about the process of discernment.

Yeah, discovery of their own essence.

Yeah, discovery of their own essence.

Yeah, discovery of their own essence.

I ask them to contemplate questions that don't have clear answers but do have understanding. Because this is the essence of how philosophically discernment works. So I'll ask, and I've done this to my adult children as well. When my kids were 18 years old, I would make them write a business plan. As a B-School professor, I can kind of get away with that, right?

I ask them to contemplate questions that don't have clear answers but do have understanding. Because this is the essence of how philosophically discernment works. So I'll ask, and I've done this to my adult children as well. When my kids were 18 years old, I would make them write a business plan. As a B-School professor, I can kind of get away with that, right?

I ask them to contemplate questions that don't have clear answers but do have understanding. Because this is the essence of how philosophically discernment works. So I'll ask, and I've done this to my adult children as well. When my kids were 18 years old, I would make them write a business plan. As a B-School professor, I can kind of get away with that, right?

And the whole point was, what are you going to do with the next five years of your life? You're the entrepreneur of your enterprise, and I'm the venture capitalist, kind of, so I deserve a business plan. I want you to tell me what you're going to do to find the answers to two distinct questions, or to find an understanding of the answers to two distinct questions. Why are you alive?

And the whole point was, what are you going to do with the next five years of your life? You're the entrepreneur of your enterprise, and I'm the venture capitalist, kind of, so I deserve a business plan. I want you to tell me what you're going to do to find the answers to two distinct questions, or to find an understanding of the answers to two distinct questions. Why are you alive?

And the whole point was, what are you going to do with the next five years of your life? You're the entrepreneur of your enterprise, and I'm the venture capitalist, kind of, so I deserve a business plan. I want you to tell me what you're going to do to find the answers to two distinct questions, or to find an understanding of the answers to two distinct questions. Why are you alive?

And for what would you gladly give your life on this day? I want to know the answers to those questions.

And for what would you gladly give your life on this day? I want to know the answers to those questions.

And for what would you gladly give your life on this day? I want to know the answers to those questions.

These are deeply existential questions that are rooted in almost everything itself.