#291 — Where is Happiness?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris speaks with Arthur C. Brooks about what it takes to build a good life. They discuss the power of social comparison, the intelligence taboo, political dignity and ethical hierarchy, the Dalai Lama, the nature of love, fluid and crystallized intelligences, the strange case of Linus Pauling, the limits of identity, atheism and religious faith, fear of death, psychedelics, existentialism, St. Thomas Aquinas, and other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | This is Sam Harris. |
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| 0:47.0 | Today I'm speaking with Arthur Brooks. |
| 0:49.8 | Arthur's a social scientist who focuses on human happiness. |
| 0:55.5 | He's a professor of the practice of public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, |
| 0:59.7 | and professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School. |
| 1:03.6 | He's also the best-selling author of 12 books, and the creator of the popular How to Build |
| 1:09.3 | a Life column in the Atlantic. |
| 1:12.6 | He previously served for 10 years as president of the American Enterprise Institute, and |
| 1:17.3 | most recently he's the author of the book From Strength to Strength. |
| 1:21.7 | He's in success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life. |
| 1:26.5 | And that is what we get into in this conversation. |
| 1:29.6 | We talk about what it takes to build a good life, the perverse power of social comparison, |
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