Arthur Brooks
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Podcast Appearances
I was very contrite.
I said, I didn't mean to hurt you.
And he said, no.
He said, I've been meaning to call you and thank you because that was literally the thing I was most afraid of in my life.
And it happened and I didn't die.
So young and profiting.
If you want to profit in life, you got to put your heart on the line, not your money on the line.
That means taking a risk with your heart.
And generally speaking, that's romantic love.
So here's my homework for you.
If you're going to be a real entrepreneur, you got two weeks.
to tell somebody that you love her or him, and if it's not scary, it's not entrepreneurial enough, and feel it if it doesn't work out, you will be stronger as a result.
For the longest time, 60-year-old men were the loneliest people in our society.
That's actually started to change now.
We're finding more and more young people.
There are probably people listening to us who feel intensely isolated, and that's not an abnormal thing at this point.
I do a lot of work with a surgeon general in the United States, Vivek Murthy.
He's absolutely phenomenal and loves his country.
One of the things he's most worried about for public health is not
just coronavirus and opioids and guns and climate and the stuff that people are talking about all the time.