Arthur Brooks
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I can't remember.
Oh, yeah.
And so specialness and happiness.
Correct.
Yeah.
So specialness and happiness is really, really interesting because the idea of... I mean, I will literally hear people say, look, any loser can have a family.
You know, any loser can have an ordinary job and provide for his wife and kids.
But not everybody can start a company.
Not everybody can be CEO.
Not everybody can have a famous podcast.
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.