Arthur Brooks

I want to create more value with my work.

And there's no end to that.

I can't be like, well, I got to the best dad I can possibly be.

So that's all good.

No, I can always work to be a better husband.

I can always work to be a better friend.

I can always work to be a better citizen.

I can always work to love my country more.

I can always work to actually do something more important in my work and reach more people with the moral objectives that I have.

And that's what I need.

I need goals I can't meet.

Part of the reason is because what strivers they get into, there's actually a pathology that is in the middle of this.

So what you find is that certain people...

Let me back up a little bit.

I work, I'm sort of the striver whisperer.

In my work, I specialize in people who do incredible things, right?

And that's just because that's fun, although it is, but because that's the kind of books that I write.

You know, people who do amazing things and still don't have perfect lives.

That's kind of my area of research, as a matter of fact.

They have a common childhood and it kind of looks like this.