Arthur Brooks: Cracking The Code To Happiness

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Author of the instant #1 NYT bestseller entitled From Strength to Strength—today Arthur C. Brooks shares the roadmap for finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in our later years. A professional French horn player turned social scientist, Arthur served as president of the American Enterprise Institute think tank in DC for a decade—and is currently a professor of public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. In addition, he writes the popular How to Build a Life column at The Atlantic, which is also home to his podcast, The Art of Happiness. Needless to say, this guy and his work are featured in every prominent media outlet there is. Today’s episode is also viewable on YouTube: bit.ly/arturbrooks683 More about Arthur + show notes: https://bit.ly/richroll683 Arthur is as charismatic as he is whip smart. This one is packed with priceless wisdom and actionable takeaways for everyone regardless of age. I hope you learn as much from Arthur as I did. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:31.5	Alright, let's do the show.
0:34.7	Love is a decision in not a feeling.
0:39.8	It's a measure of who you are, as a person, as your decision to love in a world full of
0:44.1	hate.
0:45.1	How do you reestablish your relationship with your spouse and kids when that has become
0:49.4	cordial at best?
0:51.0	How do you kick a success addiction that is deeply rooted in the neuromodulator?
0:56.3	It's reestablishing love relationships and replacing the substitutes for love that will
1:02.7	never truly satisfy you.
1:05.0	Meaning and purpose for you are simply intertwined with the suffering that you've had with
1:10.0	substance abuse, for example, with the relationships that suffered as a result of that.
1:15.1	And that's the cosmic truth of meaning.
1:17.6	When you avoid pain, you're avoiding meaning.
1:20.9	When you're avoiding learning what your purpose is through resiliency, what you're capable
1:24.5	of, and the lessons you're supposed to learn to avoid your unhappiness is to avoid your
1:28.4	happiness, which is that we need pain.
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