Arthur C. Brooks

And I'm telling you, it's the life in life.

The right hemisphere of my brain is fully alive for the first time.

I, it's funny, it's hard to describe how beautiful it actually is.

It's the, my heart and my brain are finally united.

And it's all the things that the science says, but you don't need the science to know that happiness is love.

So you're right, Leah.

And by the way, for our viewers, Leah's an Olympic athlete who then went to the Harvard Business School.

And we've discussed this a lot.

She talked in class about how frustrating it is and how empty it is to get to the finish line.

And most people would say, if I could only be like Leah and be an Olympic silver medalist, then I'd be happy.

Oh, no, no.

If I got an MBA from Harvard, then I'd be happy.

Well, she did that.

And she's a living testimony to the fact that arriving isn't the deal.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

And she suffered because, and she exposed herself to suffering because satisfaction is the joy you get from accomplishment after suffering.

But the suffering is something that we misunderstand today, that people misunderstand.

The greatest lie we tell young adults today is that suffering needs to be eliminated.