Arthur Brooks

He was just beloved by it.

He was writing textbooks instead of music.

these original manuscripts that was going to blow everybody's mind.

He didn't think he'd ever be famous again.

Turns out 100 years after he died, his manuscripts were rediscovered, and now he's the rock star of the high Baroque.

He would be shocked by that.

His kids, when he died, were way more famous than he was.

I mean, Mozart said, Bach is the father, we are the children, referring not to the Bach that we know, but to one of Bach's kids.

It's amazing, right?

Yeah, yeah.

He died in relative obscurity, but happy, surrounded by tons of kids and grandkids and students.

And he was in love with his wife.

And life was just great because he was on his crystallized intelligence curve.

And that's what we all got to look forward to because we absolutely can be killing it with success and happy.

But you can't leave it up to chance.

You got to design your life.

So feelings are involved with happiness, just like Thanksgiving dinner has smells.

You walk into mom's house on Thanksgiving, you're like, ah, it's going to be awesome.

I can smell it from the street.

But that smell of the turkey is not the Thanksgiving dinner.