Arthur C. Brooks
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And he says, I'll fix it.
And she's like, huh?
And he wasn't trying to trick her into letting him come home.
He really wanted to fix her garbage disposal.
And so he goes to her house and in 30 minutes fixes her garbage disposal.
She's blown away.
She's super impressed.
And he felt intense satisfaction doing this thing for somebody else using his hands in real life.
That's the point, right?
That's the point, Max.
And then he goes home to his own house all by himself and he realizes his own garbage disposal is clogged up and it has been for a year and he never fixed it because it's not for somebody else.
For somebody else.
Absolutely.
How would you answer that, Oprah?
Beautiful, beautiful.
To begin with, I know your work, Madison.
You're a phenomenal student, super intelligent, and your career is killing it.
I know this for a fact.
I keep in touch.
I know this is going really well, but there's a danger behind that, which is that you become a very, very perfect work machine.