Arthur Brooks
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Why do people admire beauty? Why do people love each other? And using the empirical methods and experimental methods that you learn in an economics milieu made it possible for me to study these things. And the taproot of all those things turned out to be human happiness. So when I left my think tank, And I was trying to figure out what do I want to do for the rest of my life?
Why do people admire beauty? Why do people love each other? And using the empirical methods and experimental methods that you learn in an economics milieu made it possible for me to study these things. And the taproot of all those things turned out to be human happiness. So when I left my think tank, And I was trying to figure out what do I want to do for the rest of my life?
Why do people admire beauty? Why do people love each other? And using the empirical methods and experimental methods that you learn in an economics milieu made it possible for me to study these things. And the taproot of all those things turned out to be human happiness. So when I left my think tank, And I was trying to figure out what do I want to do for the rest of my life?
I actually had a long process of discernment that culminated when I walked the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain, hundreds of kilometers walking across Northern Spain, praying the rosary and every day saying, Lord, guide my path, which is in a process of discernment is important. You've talked about this an awful lot in your work.
I actually had a long process of discernment that culminated when I walked the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain, hundreds of kilometers walking across Northern Spain, praying the rosary and every day saying, Lord, guide my path, which is in a process of discernment is important. You've talked about this an awful lot in your work.
I actually had a long process of discernment that culminated when I walked the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain, hundreds of kilometers walking across Northern Spain, praying the rosary and every day saying, Lord, guide my path, which is in a process of discernment is important. You've talked about this an awful lot in your work.
And you talk about how people try to actually find what their purpose and meaning actually is through discernment. I found, I thought it was to go back to my behavioral science roots and to look at what people actually most want in life using science and ideas to give them greater access to the truths about love and happiness.
And you talk about how people try to actually find what their purpose and meaning actually is through discernment. I found, I thought it was to go back to my behavioral science roots and to look at what people actually most want in life using science and ideas to give them greater access to the truths about love and happiness.
And you talk about how people try to actually find what their purpose and meaning actually is through discernment. I found, I thought it was to go back to my behavioral science roots and to look at what people actually most want in life using science and ideas to give them greater access to the truths about love and happiness.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
Well... As a neurocognitive matter, we actually understand what a discernment process does literally through pilgrimage. So, you know, Ian McGilchrist's work, it was phenomenal.
Well... As a neurocognitive matter, we actually understand what a discernment process does literally through pilgrimage. So, you know, Ian McGilchrist's work, it was phenomenal.
Well... As a neurocognitive matter, we actually understand what a discernment process does literally through pilgrimage. So, you know, Ian McGilchrist's work, it was phenomenal.
The psychiatrist, neuroscientist, it's a Scottish, you know, he wrote The Master and His Emissary about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the hemispherically lateralized brain, where the right side of the brain asks the big questions, but doesn't actually come up with the answers because the biggest questions in life don't have answers. They only have understanding.
The psychiatrist, neuroscientist, it's a Scottish, you know, he wrote The Master and His Emissary about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the hemispherically lateralized brain, where the right side of the brain asks the big questions, but doesn't actually come up with the answers because the biggest questions in life don't have answers. They only have understanding.
The psychiatrist, neuroscientist, it's a Scottish, you know, he wrote The Master and His Emissary about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the hemispherically lateralized brain, where the right side of the brain asks the big questions, but doesn't actually come up with the answers because the biggest questions in life don't have answers. They only have understanding.
Now, the left side actually solves complicated problems. The right side deals with complex problems. Complex and complicated are fundamentally different insofar as complicated problems, they're hard to find the solutions to. But once you have the solutions, you can replicate them with almost effortless ease. Right, right. You should make them into an algorithm. Exactly right.
Now, the left side actually solves complicated problems. The right side deals with complex problems. Complex and complicated are fundamentally different insofar as complicated problems, they're hard to find the solutions to. But once you have the solutions, you can replicate them with almost effortless ease. Right, right. You should make them into an algorithm. Exactly right.