How to Control your Mindset and Feel Happier with Arthur Brooks

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this week’s episode, WHOOP Founder and CEO Will Ahmed is joined by best-selling author and happiness expert Arthur Brooks. During the first episode of our How To Series, Will and Arthur discuss how to control your mindset and feel happier. Hear about Arthur’s unconventional background (02:18), the need to become comfortable with the uncomfortable (04:43), key components to setting routine and boosting dopamine (07:25), strivers, happiness, and aging (13:42), intuition and pattern recogniti...

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0:00.0	biggest reasons that people don't get happier is because they're chasing a feeling.
0:04.5	Feelings are evidence of happiness, like we just finished Thanksgiving, that the smell of
0:09.3	the turkey is evidence of your Thanksgiving dinner.
0:12.5	Thanksgiving dinner is a combination of protein, carbohydrates, and fat.
0:16.0	Everybody listening to the Wu podcast knows that those are the macronutrients that lie behind
0:19.5	all consumable calories.
0:22.6	It's protein carbohydrates, in fact, aka food.
0:25.3	Happiness has three macronutrients as well.
0:27.6	It has feelings that are associated with it that are evidence of happiness.
0:31.1	But the three parts of happiness are enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.
0:34.9	Those are the three things that we need.
0:36.8	What's up, folks? Happy New Year,
0:39.6	2025 coming in hot. We've got a great podcast for you today. This is, of course, the Whoop podcast.
0:46.8	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop. We're on a mission to unlock human
0:51.9	performance. If you're looking for a big January jump, check out
0:56.2	Whoop. You can literally sign up for free, free 30-day trial. That's whoop.com. Okay, this week's
1:02.4	episode, I'm joined by the talented Arthur Brooks, one of the world's leading experts on the
1:08.2	science of happiness. That's right. You want to be happier this
1:10.9	year? Let's listen to this podcast. Arthur is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the
1:16.5	Harvard Business School. Brooks is a New York Times bestselling author of 13 books. He just wrote and
1:22.2	released, Build the Life You Want with Oprah Winfrey. And you may also know him thanks to his
1:27.1	popular work from
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