Arthur Brooks || Love Your Enemies
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today it’s great to chat with Arthur Brooks on the podcast. Arthur is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in July of 2019, he served for ten years as president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of the world’s leading think tanks.
Topics
· Arthur’s relationship to music
· Arthur’s experience with silent meditation retreats
· Arthur’s unique spin on the science of happiness
· The importance of suffering
· Arthur’s conversation with the Dalai Lama
· How to treat people like assets instead of liabilities
· Being needed vs. objectifying oneself
· How to cultivate dignity
· The importance of having “useless” friends
· Why fear is the opposite of love
· The difference between empathy and compassion
· How religion and spirituality impact human happiness
· How creativity contributes to happiness
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| 0:00.0 | Today, it's great to chat with Arthur Brooks on the podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Arthur is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard |
| 0:22.2 | Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. |
| 0:26.5 | Before joining the Harvard faculty in July of 2019, he served for 10 years as president |
| 0:30.4 | of the Washington DC-based American Enterprise Institute, AEI, one of the world's leading |
| 0:35.7 | think tanks. |
| 0:36.7 | Arthur is the best-selling author of 11 books on topics ranging from economic opportunity |
| 0:41.6 | to human happiness. |
| 0:43.0 | His most recent bestseller, Love Your Enemies is a guide to building a better country and |
| 0:49.4 | mending personal relationships amidst our culture of political polarization. |
| 0:54.6 | Arthur, I'm so glad to finally chat with you on this podcast. |
| 0:57.6 | Thank you and congratulations on the phenomenal success of the psychology podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm an avid listener. |
| 1:02.8 | I love it. |
| 1:03.8 | I mean, I think it's a great podcast and I'm obviously not alone because it's the number |
| 1:07.8 | of one psychology podcast in the world. |
| 1:10.0 | Congratulations on that. |
| 1:11.0 | Thank you so much, Arthur. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't know if you remember me. |
| 1:14.4 | You probably don't. |
| 1:15.4 | There are a lot of people in the room that day, but when you came to the Paws of Psychology |
| 1:18.3 | Center, you gave a talk about three years ago. |
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