Arthur Brooks

2011. Increasing meaning and happiness. That one. Fucking legend, you dude. Yeah, yeah, totally. And my whole concept of happiness rolls meaning into happiness, thus incorporating unhappiness into the process of getting happier, which of course is the standard experience of being fully alive. You want to be happy? You better be unhappy. Let's see how unhappy you can be before you can be happy.

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

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

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.