Arthur C. Brooks

And I want to be part of a community that accepts me for who I am.

No, no, no.

I want to accept me for who I am.

And I wrote a book called From Strength to Strength, finding purpose in the second half of life.

I mean, so I've got second half of lifers who are like, yeah, bring it on, man.

Bring it on.

Bring on the suffering.

Yeah, for sure.

Bring all of it on because that's actually part of the adventure.

I think in the culture in general, we still have a lot more work to do.

I think you and I need to expand our communities a lot more and to reach down much more into women and men in their 20s and 30s.

to help them understand that that what they're going to experience is something you need to prepare themselves for and to celebrate it in advance.

We talked about asking questions and falling in love and suffering.

Okay, what's our next one?

The next one is what I call transcendence.

And you might think of it as like spirituality or religion, but it's actually something more than that.

It's standing in awe of something bigger than you to transcend yourself.

All transcendent experiences, whether spiritual, religious experiences, or even serving other people, these really excite the right hemisphere of the brain because you're getting away from yourself.

This intense focus on me, me, me, me.

Like, Tamsen, it's so boring.