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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You're a person with feelings.

And the truth is your feelings are liars, liars, liars.

Sometimes they're not lying, but they lie a lot.

Why?

Because they send an alarm up.

Assume that they're lying.

Yeah, I mean, you should at least be open to the idea that they're lying.

You should always be very suspicious of your feelings.

Your feelings will tell you that if that person leaves you, you're gonna die and you're never gonna find happiness ever again.

That's a straight up lie.

The reason for that is because that part of your limbic system of your brain makes you very averse to being abandoned.

You have to be averse to being abandoned.

Otherwise, you'd be friendless, divorced, and fired within a week because you'd say everything that you think.

It's a self-defense mechanism.

It's that belief that you're actually going to die if that person leaves you.

That lie actually keeps you alive.

But that lie is also holding you back.

And that's the kind of skepticism that you actually need.

I think that people think their feelings are like missives from God.

They're the most real thing.

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