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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1792: The Secrets of Happy People With Arthur C. Brooks

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with New York Times best selling author, Harvard professor and happiness expert, Arthur Brooks on what happiness is and how to achieve it.

  • What is a social scientist? (3:33)
  • Why does academia lack humility? (4:38)
  • The massive human experiment that is the coronavirus pandemic. (7:58)
  • Is fear or control the biggest deterrent to your pursuit of happiness? (10:23)
  • Why there is fear-based polarity in the US. (16:32)
  • The comparison trap, that is social media. (19:05)
  • Why do parents tend to overprotect their children? (21:40)
  • What motivated him to write his new book? (25:50)
  • The commonalities of the happy as they age. (30:42)
  • Why wisdom is knowing how to use what you know. (33:20)
  • How life is not that interesting when you don't have diversity. (36:50)
  • The importance of having a spiritual practice. (41:05)
  • The big problems created by the coronavirus and how to combat them. (45:14)
  • When you hate, someone is profiting. (50:12)
  • Arthur's hopeful mindset for the future. (53:37)
  • The Opposite Signal Strategy (OSS) to combat loneliness. (55:42)
  • The thought experiment of understanding your intrinsic vs. extrinsic reward system. (57:39)
  • Do not let success ruin your happiness! (1:03:13)
  • How critical is the partner we choose to do this life with? (1:07:02)
  • Beware of success addiction. (1:09:26)
  • The practices of a healthy relationship. (1:16:50)
  • Being the child of a social scientist. (1:21:33)
  • Mind Pump, the happiness podcast. (1:26:40)
  • What is the secret to communicating with people with opposing views? (1:27:47)

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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

Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

This is Mind Pump, right?

0:19.0

Today's episode is a treat.

0:21.0

One of our favorite people in the world, social scientists, Arthur Brooks,

0:25.0

great friend of ours, author of several books, but one of them just came out

0:29.0

and made it to the New York Times bestseller list.

0:32.0

There's actually, I believe number one, called Strength to Strength.

0:35.0

We love this guy.

0:36.0

He's an expert on happiness.

0:37.0

And today's episode, we talk about the secrets of happy people.

0:40.0

Like, what do happy people do on a regular basis that makes them so happy and feel good all the time?

0:47.0

It's a very, very fun episode.

0:49.0

Again, he's always so full of insight.

0:51.0

He communicates so well.

0:53.0

We know you're going to love this episode.

0:55.0

Now, this episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Chilly Sleep.

0:58.0

Now, your sleep quality, your ability to sleep deeply is so intricately tied to your health.

1:04.0

It makes a huge difference.

1:05.0

And there's a lot of things you can do to improve your sleep.

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