Arthur Brooks

One of the things that we all know is it's very easy relatively to lose weight, but it's impossible to keep weight off.

So 95% of diets fail after a year.

The reason is because making progress makes you happy.

But when you hit your goal, the reward for hitting that goal is you never get to eat the things that you like for the rest of your life, which is not very enticing.

Everything is about progress, including getting better at work.

So dentists, you find that they tend to, around age 43, they're like, I think I'm going to start taking Fridays off and golfing.

Well, didn't you love being a dentist?

Yeah, but I don't know.

no, I don't like it as much.

Why?

Because you're on the wrong side of your fluid intelligence curve and things are not getting easier anymore than they used to.

That's super important.

But there's good news, which is there's another intelligence curve behind it.

And most people don't know about this.

This is one of the key things that I write about.

Most people listening to us, they're still climbing their fluid intelligence curve, but you got to start making plans because at some point, if you want to go from strength to strength in your life, you got to be able to go from one curve to the other.

The

crystallized intelligence curve, we call it, that it's kind of your wisdom curve, your teaching curve.

You don't have the same working memory, but you have this incredible pattern recognition.

You have this ability to tell stories based on knowledge that you put together in your mind.