Arthur Brooks: Happiness, Legacy, and Living Properly

The Trey Gowdy Podcast

FOX News Radio

Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, Finland is believed to be the happiest country in the world, while the U.S. once again does not appear in the top ten. New York Times Best-selling author and Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor at Harvard University, Arthur Brooks, explores how happiness is measured differently across cultures. He explains the impediments to happiness, which often center around human mortality, detailing why the fear of not existing overrides the fear of dying. Arthur also discusses how religion plays a role in the fear of death and describes why 'working on the soul' will help remove the barriers to happiness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition of our podcast.
0:23.1	We're joined today by, I know I've said this before, but he really is one of my favorite people to listen to, to read, to talk with.
0:30.7	He's a conservative thought leader who shifted to the classroom and academia.
0:36.8	He was never a politician, always more of a policy guy.
0:41.5	Now he lectures and he writes and he researches the science of happiness.
0:47.9	His name is Arthur Brooks, and I guess the best intro I can give him is he's one of my wife's very favorite guest.
0:55.7	She always asked me, when are you going to have Dr. Brooks back on?
0:59.3	Well, honey, right now today.
1:01.7	Dr. Brooks, how are you?
1:03.0	Hey, Trey.
1:03.6	I hope Mrs. Gowdy's listening.
1:05.8	She will be.
1:07.0	She will be.
1:08.2	I did a trial, and then I played golf with two people from Finland.
1:14.4	And you and I were talking off air about being asked questions. I can't resist asking people
1:22.2	from Finland because they always rank us the happiest country on earth. And they both told me
1:26.7	the same thing. One's the president of Finland, the other's a lawyer, that what you say is happiness,
1:32.3	we call contentment.
1:33.8	We don't walk around just laughing and giggling.
1:36.9	It's almost like a resignation and acceptance.
1:41.3	It's more rational than emotional.
1:43.6	So when you see these surveys, do you like laugh or do you understand what it means to be, quote,
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