Arthur Brooks

Now, you look at other people, like I also give the case of Johann Sebastian Bach, the greatest composer of serious art music who ever lived.

And most people listening to us, even if you don't care about classical music, you know who Bach is.

He was the master of the high Baroque era.

And Bach, man, I mean, that guy was a man fully alive.

He was the greatest innovator of his generation.

He was super productive.

He also had 20 kids.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, it's productive, isn't it?

Yeah.

It was amazing.

But he was surrounded by love and he was really deeply into his religious faith and he loved music.

And then just like Darwin, when he was about 50 years old, all of his innovative capacity seemed to evaporate because it does because you're not in your fluid intelligence curve.

And so he redesigned his career as the greatest teacher of his generation.

What Darwin should have done is like, yeah, I'm probably not going to come up with any new inventions.

So I'm going to bring along the next generation and I'm going to be revered and loved as a teacher.

And that's what Bach did.

He became the teacher at a church called the Thomas Kirche in Leipzig in Germany.

And, you know, he directed the choir.

He taught the organ students.