Arthur Brooks

So a few years ago, when I actually stepped down as president of this think tank and I took this current teaching position at Harvard University, I decided I was going to spend the rest of my working life, maybe the rest of my life, writing, speaking, and teaching about how we can bring people together and lift them up in bonds of love and happiness using science and ideas.

And that's what I'm doing.

Yeah, I get all of my ideas from overheard conversations, generally speaking.

I mean, the world is my laboratory as a behavioral guy.

So, you know, if you're in a Starbucks line confessing to your best friend that somebody just broke your heart, keep your voice down because I might write a book about it.

Yeah, yeah, totally.

And so I was on a plane from LA to Washington, DC, you know, flight that I did a lot because I was the CEO of this company and I had to go all over the country all the time.

I was traveling constantly and I was feeling a little bit insecure, to be honest.

I was thinking, you know, I'm going to do this.

It's going really well, but what's the end game?

I mean, what am I trying to do here?

I mean, I'm going to do it.

I'm going to get better at it.

It's going to be successful.

I'm going to do it every year.

And then at some point, I'm going to stop.

And then what?

I mean, what am I working towards?

We got to work towards something.

And I didn't have the answer to that.