Arthur C. Brooks

The research on how our brains change, how our lives change, how our personalities change, and how we can actually, as super strivers, move on to the next curve of our lives and be successful and actually get happier as well.

I think I cracked the code.

I think you did, too.

I wrote it for you, Tamsen.

For sure.

No, exactly right.

And the truth of the matter is that as we get older, particularly as we move through our 40s and 50s, there's lots and lots of changes.

There's neurobiological changes, but there's also psychology that goes into this.

And one of the things that you find is that people move from one kind of general intelligence to another.

When you're younger, when you're in your 20s and 30s, you're good at cracking the case.

You're good kind of...

kind of cowboy in the way that you do your work and on your own.

And that's what made you really good at what you were doing as a journalist, for sure.

But as you get into your 40s and 50s, you find that you're a much better teacher than you've been in the past.

That's called crystallized intelligence.

That's pattern recognition, the ability to explain intricate topics, even science to people.

And if you found that you had a real interest in taking a scientific topic, I don't know, just hypothetically, I don't know, menopause,

Yeah, we'll use that one.

I mean, that's a technical topic.

I mean, that's a very, very intricate area of science.