Harvard Professor Reveals the Secret to Happiness in Leadership | Arthur Brooks

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast

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4.9 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder why driven leaders hit an invisible wall? In this episode, Arthur Brooks explains why high achievers burn out—and how to pivot toward greater impact by shifting your mindset, redefining success, and leading with wisdom that lasts.

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0:00.0	That leads to what we call success addiction.
0:02.7	Their brains look like the brains of people who got addicted to drugs or alcohol.
0:06.8	These are the people who become the success addicted individuals who go on to become workaholics.
0:11.6	Workaholism is a secondary addiction to success addiction.
0:14.3	People have to solve that.
0:15.2	I have to practically send people to AA for that.
0:17.7	But I look in the mirror.
0:19.3	It's me too, man.
0:20.3	Me too.
0:24.8	Hey, one of my favorite things about this podcast is to introduce people that I love and respect to you
0:31.3	because if they've changed my life, I know they could change your life. And today,
0:36.9	I want to introduce
0:37.7	one of those people to you. He is a professor at the Harvard Business School. He's authored 13 books,
0:43.6	one of them with Oprah. His book from strength to strength is a book that I recommend everyone read.
0:51.9	I want to give away three copies of his book. They're signed copies. If you hop over to
0:55.5	YouTube, you can type in the comment section. I want to grow stronger and we'll draw three books.
1:01.2	To get detailed notes about our conversation today and more, go to life.church slash leadership
1:07.4	podcast. Make sure you get the leader guide. It's super important.
1:12.0	Get ready to take notes.
1:13.3	It's my honor today to introduce to you, someone who's helped change my life.
1:18.0	Our guest today is Arthur C. Brooks.
1:20.3	Arthur, man, it's great to have you on today.
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