No. 1 Happiness Expert: If Your Friends Get Divorced So Will You! Single Friends Will Keep You Single! Obesity Is Contagious

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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If you want to hear more about the key to happiness, I recommend you check out my conversation with Dr Robert Waldinger, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itg00I2q8lk Everyone is constantly looking for happiness, but maybe real happiness can be found where we least expect it. Arthur C. Brooks is a bestselling author of 13 books and Harvard professor where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and social entrepreneurship. He is the columnist of the popular weekly “How to Build a Life” column at The Atlantic. In this interview, Steven and Arthur discuss everything from why Arthur studies the science of happiness, the crucial importance of meaning and agency, why society is wrong at saying what causes happiness and why happiness is infectious. You can purchase Arthur’s most recent book, ‘Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier’, here: https://amzn.to/3O89WXf Follow Arthur: Twitter - https://bit.ly/3HnHLje Instagram - https://bit.ly/47CYaeq Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram - http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter - http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin - https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram - http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Linkedin Jobs: https://www.linkedin.com/doac Huel Greens: https://my.huel.com/DiaryofaCEOJan24 Uber: https://p.uber.com/creditsterms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I take the same test year by year and I am 60% happier than I was five years ago because I finally cracked the code.
0:06.0	Okay, so Arthur Brooks, the world-renowned social scientist.
0:10.0	Harvard professor, best-selling author,
0:12.0	who teaches people how to live a better, happier life.
0:14.8	I've studied the science of happiness and I found that most of what the society tells us is wrong,
0:20.0	and we will go into all of this. For example, they found that happiness is about 50% genetic.
0:25.0	Introverts tend to have more long-term happiness.
0:27.4	And happiness is a mind virus.
0:29.5	It will transmit from one person to another person to another person
0:31.7	to another person.
0:32.4	Really?
0:33.4	They were looking at the trajectory of people's lives,
0:35.7	measuring everything for many years, and they found obesity as contagious.
0:39.2	When your friends get divorced, you're more likely to get divorced.
0:41.8	But also when your friends get happy, you're more likely to get divorced but also when your friends get
0:42.8	happy you're more likely to get happy the problem is happiness has been in decline
0:46.7	since about 1990. One of the reasons is that we need struggle and suffering for us
0:50.9	to actually get the joy that we seek, but we know that, for example,
0:54.0	95% of diets fail is the most unsuccessful industry in the world because the arrival fallacy
0:59.2	that want to actually get rid of the belly fat, then I'm actually going to have a more wonderful life.
1:04.0	That's actually not true.
1:05.3	You actually get more satisfaction from the progress.
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