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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I've just seen it in the research.

Now, that's great because you're going to be less maladapted in your ruminative sadness.

I'm so stupid, nobody loves me, et cetera, et cetera.

The problem is there's other kinds of rumination that it also appears to eradicate.

For example, when you're falling in love, you're ruminating on the other person.

This is why a lot of people on mood adapters, who are taking mood drugs, psychiatric drugs for depression, they say it's hard to fall in love.

I don't know why.

I don't know why I can't fall in love.

And that's because they can't ruminate on the other person.

People will often say when I'm taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, I feel less creative.

Why?

Because creativity is rumination.

You know, when you're preparing one of your Netflix specials and you're ruminating, you're using that part of your brain.

I wrote Chappelle Show on Zoloft.

Did you?

Good.

Imagine how good it would have been if you weren't on Zoloft.

That thing would have been so much better.

And this is, again, none of this is an argument to not take your meds.

Yeah.

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