Arthur Brooks

And the people who try to avoid their unhappiness paradoxically avoid their happiness, which is the problem. Yeah.

Is that true? That's what's going on. What they're really trying to do when they're focusing on being happy, they're focusing on eliminating the unhappiness from their life and paradoxically miss their happiness. That's the problem.

Is that true? That's what's going on. What they're really trying to do when they're focusing on being happy, they're focusing on eliminating the unhappiness from their life and paradoxically miss their happiness. That's the problem.

Is that true? That's what's going on. What they're really trying to do when they're focusing on being happy, they're focusing on eliminating the unhappiness from their life and paradoxically miss their happiness. That's the problem.

That's what they're doing. So they're hiding from bad vibes, not just expediting good vibes. Exactly right. And that's really the bad advice that they're getting from the therapy industrial complex in America today and around the world is that if you're unhappy, if you're suffering, it's evidence that something's wrong and broken and you need to eliminate it. That's exactly wrong.

That's what they're doing. So they're hiding from bad vibes, not just expediting good vibes. Exactly right. And that's really the bad advice that they're getting from the therapy industrial complex in America today and around the world is that if you're unhappy, if you're suffering, it's evidence that something's wrong and broken and you need to eliminate it. That's exactly wrong.

That's what they're doing. So they're hiding from bad vibes, not just expediting good vibes. Exactly right. And that's really the bad advice that they're getting from the therapy industrial complex in America today and around the world is that if you're unhappy, if you're suffering, it's evidence that something's wrong and broken and you need to eliminate it. That's exactly wrong.

That's exactly incorrect. If you had eliminated the sources of unhappiness from your life, the sources of suffering, And it's not a question of whether or not you delayed your gratification. It's a question of whether you embrace the suffering that comes along with doing a hard thing. You would have missed your success. That's what you would have missed.

That's exactly incorrect. If you had eliminated the sources of unhappiness from your life, the sources of suffering, And it's not a question of whether or not you delayed your gratification. It's a question of whether you embrace the suffering that comes along with doing a hard thing. You would have missed your success. That's what you would have missed.

That's exactly incorrect. If you had eliminated the sources of unhappiness from your life, the sources of suffering, And it's not a question of whether or not you delayed your gratification. It's a question of whether you embrace the suffering that comes along with doing a hard thing. You would have missed your success. That's what you would have missed.

And so therefore, the process of getting happier means accepting, embracing, being grateful for the unhappiness that comes along along the way of being fully alive. That's what meaning is really all about. It's like, you know, the masters of meaning, they don't start each day going, I'm truly grateful for all the nice things that happened to me today.

And so therefore, the process of getting happier means accepting, embracing, being grateful for the unhappiness that comes along along the way of being fully alive. That's what meaning is really all about. It's like, you know, the masters of meaning, they don't start each day going, I'm truly grateful for all the nice things that happened to me today.

And so therefore, the process of getting happier means accepting, embracing, being grateful for the unhappiness that comes along along the way of being fully alive. That's what meaning is really all about. It's like, you know, the masters of meaning, they don't start each day going, I'm truly grateful for all the nice things that happened to me today.

They wake up and they say, I'm truly grateful for all the things I'm not going to like today. That's what the master says.

They wake up and they say, I'm truly grateful for all the things I'm not going to like today. That's what the master says.

They wake up and they say, I'm truly grateful for all the things I'm not going to like today. That's what the master says.

I appreciate that a lot. It means a lot to me coming through. You've talked to everybody in the world. I'm slowly taking off the list.

I appreciate that a lot. It means a lot to me coming through. You've talked to everybody in the world. I'm slowly taking off the list.

I appreciate that a lot. It means a lot to me coming through. You've talked to everybody in the world. I'm slowly taking off the list.

And, you know, this is the time, you know, where you run the seam between the scholars who would be indecipherable and the influencers who have all the audience in the world, but they don't do the science. You run the seam between them. Why? Because you're connecting the best ideas to the people who can use them. That's a big deal. That's a huge service.