Arthur C. Brooks

It was like you with your book.

I walked the Camino de Santiago, which is this long walk across Northern Spain.

Wow.

A day after I retired at 55, I went to Spain with my wife and we started walking.

And I wanted to do the whole 800K walk.

And she's like, no.

So we did the last 160K.

But that was enough because you're tired and you're in pain and you've got blisters and you're basically, you beat yourself into submission and you're not looking at your devices and you're with your beloved and you're praying every day.

You're doing all the six things and you're seeing unbelievable beauty.

You're outside in Northern Spain.

All of it's like one, two, three, four, five, six.

You're asking these deep questions.

You're having these deep conversations.

You're doing all these six things.

I didn't know it.

I didn't know it.

And on the last day, my meaning found me.

it found me because I was open to it.

I'd been in this, the aperture had been open because in the last week and a half, I'd been living like my great grandparents.

And the meaning that found me was that I was gonna spend the rest of my life lifting people up and bringing them together in bonds of happiness and love, using science and ideas.