Arthur C. Brooks

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Blocks: I Wish I Knew w/ Neal Brennan · Happiness Expert Dr. Arthur C. Brooks · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

That's not it.

It's just I don't want that on the record.

I know, I know, I know.

So the reverse bucket list is the idea that we want to motivate ourselves

by experiencing, by simulating a little bit of the achievements of meeting the desires that we have deep in our hearts for the worldly rewards in our lives.

So I want to see this person.

I want to experience that.

I want to bungee jump off the Mekong Delta.

I want to...

meet the president united states i want to make my first billion whatever happens to be whatever your thing is right and we get a ferrari something like that and then you think about it and you what you're doing is you're eliciting a little bit of the dopamine which is anticipation of reward and that's supposed to program into you it's supposed to kind of manifest in the universe which is really trying you're anticipating the real the reward the reward

You're anticipating a little bit of the reward, getting a taste.

If I do this, I'm going to feel.

Yeah.

And I got a little taste of that.

And then you're, what you're trying to do with that bucket list is say, okay, I got that taste and now I want the real thing.

And it'll set you in search of it.

And it will, by the way, it really will motivate you, but it won't make you happier.

Unconsciously.

Yeah.

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