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And now let's jump into today's content. I have been looking forward to this month's episode because we have Arthur Brooks here to talk about his number one New York Times best selling book from Strength to Strength.

I read it after it's released in February of last year. And I have been recommending this book, different ever since. In fact, I cannot think of a book. I have recommended more in the last five, six, maybe ten years.

Every conversation, I bring it up every time I'm sitting in front of leaders. I'm like, have you read from strength to strength. And so I was so thrilled with an author agreed to come on the podcast. So Arthur, welcome to the Andy Stanley leadership podcast.

Thank you, Andy. What a delight it is to be with you. I'm looking forward to this too. Thank you for the good work that you're doing to improve leadership and improve people's lives.

Well, I appreciate you saying that before we jump into the content just for the half dozen or so folks who don't know who you are. Arthur Brooks 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.

He served for what 10 years as president of the Washington DC based American Enterprise Institute, one of the world's largest and leading think tanks and he talks a little bit about that in the book.

He's also the author of 11 books or 10 other books, I guess, including the National Bestseller, Love Your Enemies that came out in 2019. He's a columnist for the Atlantic. He's the host of his podcast, The Art of Happiness.

And this was such a cool thing. He was the subject or he's the subject of the 2019 documentary film, The Pursuit, which was named one of the best documentaries on Netflix in 2019, which is a really big deal.

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