1495 The Science of Happiness With Arthur C. Brooks
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Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal speaks with Arthur C. Brooks about the science of being happy.
- How do we define happiness? (4:15)
- The barriers holding you back from full enjoyment of your life. (6:48)
- The concept of the treadmill of satisfaction. (8:03)
- Why true happiness requires unhappiness. (11:05)
- The concept of the 4 Idols of Worship and why you should have a reverse bucket list. (13:05)
- Why social comparison is the thief of joy. (21:45)
- The art of balance. (30:47)
- How to change your relationship with pain. (32:28)
- As a society, are we experiencing a happiness problem? (36:20)
- The epidemic of fear. (43:24)
- What drove him to the science of happiness? (46:32)
- How to build your happiness portfolio. (49:42)
- His outlook for the future. (53:00)
- How politicians are people too. (55:54)
Featured Guest/People Mentioned
- Arthur Brooks (@arthurcbrooks) Instagram
- Arthur Brooks Website
- Arthur Brooks Art of Happiness Podcast
- Ryan Holiday (@ryanholiday) Instagram
- Jon Haidt (@jonhaidt) Twitter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is MindPump. |
| 0:19.0 | Now, today's episode, I interview one of my favorite people in the world, Arthur Brooks. |
| 0:24.0 | He is a behavioral scientist, a professor at Harvard University. |
| 0:29.0 | He's also put together a great documentary called The Pursuit. |
| 0:32.0 | It was on Netflix before. |
| 0:34.0 | Not sure if it's still there, but it's a great documentary. |
| 0:36.0 | Very, very smart, smart man. |
| 0:38.0 | And he understands the science of happiness. |
| 0:42.0 | There is a science, in fact, to helping yourself or others become more happy. |
| 0:47.0 | And he breaks it all down in this episode. |
| 0:49.0 | And he literally blows my mind several times in this entire podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you want to learn how to get yourself to be more happy, improve the quality of your life, |
| 1:00.0 | and help others be more happy, you're going to love this episode. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, you can find him on his podcast, The Art of Happiness. |
| 1:07.0 | It's a great podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, The Pursuit is available on Amazon. |
| 1:11.0 | Doug just told me so. |
| 1:12.0 | You can go check that out on Amazon. |
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