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Hello to everybody joining us on our Super Soul here. This is the third and final

episode, at least for now, of our Build the Life You Want series and with me is my

co-author. Actually, I'm your co-author. You're the author. I'm the co-author. No, no, we're both co-author actually I'm your co-author you're the author I'm the co-

no no we're both co co co co co co we're co yeah recall oh I think of you as the author and I'm the co-

anyway Arthur Brooks your social scientist and a Harvard Business School professor who teaches a very popular class on happiness.

And I'm just, as a social scientist, what does that actually mean I love the word the term what

does it mean you study human behavior yeah study human beings yeah study

human beings and why they do what they do which is so interesting you know if you're

if you're an astronomer you know the astrophysicist or you're studying natural sciences, you're looking at the big complicated things in the universe. But that's different than the complex things that people do. People are funny. You can't with any amount of

computing horsepower simulate what people are going to do.

Because people are motivated by love. People are motivated by

relationships and so the result is we easily know what we want but we don't know

how to get it. Yeah that's a wicked problem as they say in Boston that's a that's a really

hard problem to solve and it's a super interesting one of that.

So if you're studying human behavior, what part of it are you studying?

Just everything?

Yeah, well, in general you can.

You can look at any, and psychologists and behavioral economists, they're studying every conceivable facet

of behavior that you can imagine.

But for me, it's happiness and love,

because that's the heart of it.

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