Arthur Brooks

Well, the...

flight ends and we land at Dulles Airport in Washington.

And I'm kind of curious.

I mean, I'm not trying to be eavesdrop or anything.

When the lights go on and we all stand up, I turn around to get a look and it turns out to be one of the most famous men in the world.

Everybody knows who this person is because of his exploits and his heroic acts in the 1960s and 70s.

He's very old now, but he's super rich and famous and justifiably so.

He's not some controversial politician or actor or

entertainer.

This is somebody who really did amazing things, much more than I'll ever do with my life.

And it made me realize at that moment, I mean, where people are recognizing him and the pilot says as we're leaving, sir, you've been my hero since I was a little boy.

And he's beaming at that moment.

But I heard him confessing to his wife just a little few minutes earlier, he might as well be dead.

And it occurred to me that the world tells you that if you are profiting, if you're

getting ahead, money, power, pleasure, fame, you're going to be happy.

And that's a bogus formula.

There's a reason for it.

It's not like somebody's trying to sell you a bill of goods.

It's your own brain that's telling you that.

Mother Nature tells you that.