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

And that's what kept them in the hunt, and that's why you're alive today.

But that didn't make them happy because Mother Nature doesn't care.

We have to.

And so here's the updating mechanism.

You can choose not the animal impulse that's incorrect, but the moral aspiration that you desire.

The great human prefrontal cortex, this meaty bulb of tissue in the front of your head, 30% of your brain by weight.

Your dog doesn't have it.

Your dog only has animal impulses.

you have the choice of moral aspirations in which you stand up to your animal impulses.

And you do it all the time.

You're married a long time.

Not that long, but yeah, I know what you mean.

But you go on tour and, you know, you could do all kinds of misbehavior according to your animal impulses.

Yeah, yeah.

And you don't because you don't want to do that because you've chosen to forego immediate gratification for long-term outcomes that you find are morally superior and more satisfying for your life.

And what you're basically saying is this –

I don't need to increase my haves.

I need to decrease my wants.

Your satisfaction is your haves divided by your wants.

That's a better model for long-term satisfaction.

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