Arthur C. Brooks

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1,407 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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And you can actually find out whether your bigger challenge is positive or negative affect.

For me, I'm at the 90th percentile in positive affect, but I'm at the 90th percentile in negative affect as well.

I'm like a super mad scientist woman.

Actually, I am.

I'm a really, really high affect person.

But what that means is I need protocols not to raise my happiness, but rather to manage my unhappiness.

And so a lot of people will ask me, for example, how important is it to exercise for your happiness?

It's not.

It's important for managing your unhappiness.

I can tell something about people who are in the gym every day.

If you're in the gym every day, it's like, I'm a gym rat.

I'm a gym rat.

That's because you have naturally high negative affect.

And you're just, you figured out that you feel crummy when you don't do that.

If you have low negative affect because you're a cheerleader,

Like, because that's the kind of person that you're, or you're a judge, which is a low affect profile.

You just feel your emotions less intensely than other people.

You're going to struggle to stay in the gym.

And your doctor is going to be like, come on, man, 150 minutes of high intensity exercise a week, please.

And look, after four, you're going to get sarcopenia.

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