Arthur C. Brooks

It can be a psychiatric problem that actually needs to be treated for sure.

But if you're not sad and anxious, you need therapy.

Yeah.

is to actually understand it and be thinking about what it is, what it actually is that I'm experiencing as opposed to trying to avoid that.

And so my students, I make them say, my suffering is sacred.

My suffering is my teacher.

Today is gonna be a day that has some very beautiful and fun things.

I'm grateful for that.

It's also gonna have some difficult things, maybe some really hard things.

And I'm grateful for that too, because through that, I'm gonna learn and grow.

So all I can say is bring it on.

An example of suffering is almost, there's little suffering, there's big suffering.

Sure, of course.

And this is inevitable, by the way.

So my students will ask, so professor, do I need to go looking for suffering?

I say, don't worry, it'll find you.

It'll find you.

I mean, every 18 months, on average, you have a big transition in your life.

Ordinarily, it's not something that you initiated.

So therefore, it's unwelcome.