Arthur Brooks

Not everybody can do those things.

And in other words, they're saying, I know what would make me happy, and I'm going to forego that happiness for what I think is a happiness beyond it, which is specialness.

And that will always lead to ruin.

It always does.

I mean, again and again and again.

I talk to people my age.

I've talked about people who are older than me.

I mean, it's like this classic thing.

It's a friend who is 25 years older than I am.

Um, an icon in finance, an absolute icon of finance.

And I said, when I said, how old were you when you figured out you were gonna be rich?

He said 32.

He knew when it was, it was 32 years old.

He said, it was like, I, you know, I actually left this bank and I actually went and opened my own firm and, and it was starting to make money and, and we weren't rich yet, but I, I realized I was gonna be rich.

And I said, you must've thought what's it gonna be like to be rich?

What's it gonna be like to be rich?

What's gonna happen?

He said, yeah, he's not very materialistic guy.

He doesn't have a boat.

He doesn't have 15 houses.