Arthur C. Brooks
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1,407 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Arthur C. Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're not a dark triad.
I'm certainly not a dark triad.
But there is a striverly tendency and people who are really, really, really driven.
And I've studied that a lot.
That's one of the things I'm most interested in is people who are, yeah, right?
I'm interested in you.
You tried to earn the love that you sought, which is very common.
So that is manifest and people will think of it as workaholism, but workaholism is a secondary pathology after success addiction, where life feels gray when you're not succeeding.
And ordinarily that's personal.
Gray, you said.
Gray, gray, because that means a lack of dopamine.
You get your dopamine from winning.
And here's, generally speaking, the reason that it works.
When your brain is most synaptically plastic is when you're a little kid.
And if you're really good at something, get really good grades, you're a really good musician, you're a really good athlete, whatever it happens to be, you'll find that you get a lot of approbation and attention and affection from the adults that you care about the most only when you do something extraordinary, when you do something better than other people.
That has a huge impact on a little dude or a little girl.
It's just a huge impact.
These are people who want to become Olympic athletes.
They do weird things like create the Dave Chappelle show.
I just pulled that one out of the hat.
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