Arthur Brooks

She wants us to stay hungry.

So she's wired in a mistake.

She's wired in a mistake.

She's wired in something that is such a deep mistake that we make again and again and again, that even when people speak a manifest truth that people deeply believe, they still will reject it.

I remember when David Brooks, you know the author David Brooks, we and I are super old friends.

We're not related.

Share a surname, a common surname.

It's a common surname, right?

And so my Brooks is snuck out of Lancashire in 1630 to Massachusetts, one step ahead of the county sheriff.

But, and his came later.

Anyway, David Brooks, he said, I remember years and years and years ago, he said, you know, being number one in the New York Times bestseller list, it's really not that great.

We're having lunch.

And I said, let me try.

Let me see how it feels, right?

And that was exactly the point that you made.

Now, Ryan Holiday talks about that too.

The first time he had a book that was number one in the New York Times bestseller list, he's like,

This is great.

And the next week it was some yo-yo who had a stupid book as number one.

And he realized how little it actually meant.