Stop Chasing Happiness: Master The Psychology Of Pleasure, Power & Success Instead | Arthur Brooks PT 2

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

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“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…” If you caught part one of today’s dynamic conversation with Arthur Brooks, we talked about the role of progress in your ability to flourish, the danger of being attached to your beliefs and what happens when you allow your views to define your identity. Arthur Brooks is a social scientist, Harvard professor, and bestselling author committed to helping people find success, happiness and deep meaning. He's such a profound thought-leader in the space that he just released a book with Oprah called Build the Life You Want, The Art and Science of Getting Happier. We explore a deeply thought-provoking conversation about the pursuit of happiness through progress, learning, and understanding. As simple as the idea of happiness seems on the surface, understanding the complexities of what it means to pursue it, relish tt, and define the meaning of it without attachment and dogmatic viewpoints escapes many people. By the end of this podcast, I want for your challenge your beliefs and reassess where you are in your pursuit of happiness. Are you exploring life with meaning on your journey or trapped in misconceptions and social constructs that distort your ability to ever be happy. Follow Arthur Brooks: Website: https://arthurbrooks.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/arthurbrooks YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arthurbrooks123 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arthurcbrooks/ SPONSORS: Visit https://bit.ly/WildHealthImpact to apply for membership for a better alternative to traditional healthcare. Get 5 free AG1 Travel Packs and a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D with your first purchase at https://bit.ly/AG1Impact. Right now, Kajabi is offering a 30-day free trial to start your own business if you go to https://bit.ly/Kajabi-Impact. Head to www.insidetracker.com and use code “IMPACTTHEORY” to get 20% off! Learn a new language and get 55% off at https://bit.ly/BabbelImpact. Try NordVPN risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee by going to https://bit.ly/NordVPNImpact Give online therapy a try at https://bit.ly/BetterhelpImpact and get on your way to being your best self. Go to https://bit.ly/PlungeImpact and use code IMPACT to get $150 off your incredible cold plunge tub today. ***Are You Ready for EXTRA Impact?*** If you’re ready to find true fulfillment, strengthen your focus, and ignite your true potential, the Impact Theory subscription was created just for you. Want to transform your health, sharpen your mindset, improve your relationship, or conquer the business world? This is your epicenter of greatness. This is not for the faint of heart. This is for those who dare to learn obsessively, every day, day after day. * New episodes delivered ad-free * Unlock the gates to a treasure trove of wisdom from inspiring guests like Andrew Huberman, Mel Robbins, Hal Elrod, Matthew McConaughey, and many, many, more * Exclusive access to Tom’s AMAs, keynote speeches, and suggestions from his personal reading list * You’ll also get access to an 5 additional podcasts with hundreds of archived Impact Theory episodes, meticulously curated into themed playlists covering health, mindset, business, relationships, and more: *Legendary Mindset: Mindset & Self-Improvement *Money Mindset: Business & Finance *Relationship Theory: Relationships *Health Theory: Mental & Physical Health *Power Ups: Weekly Doses of Short Motivational Quotes *****Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3PCvJaz***** Subscribe on all other platforms (Google Podcasts, Spotify, Castro, Downcast, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podcast Republic, Podkicker, and more) : https://impacttheorynetwork.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to part two with Arthur Brooks as we explore the joys of an honorable life lived in pursuit of pleasure, power, and success instead.
0:11.0	All right. When two smart people who are well-meaning think the other person is crazy, you know they have different base assumptions.
0:16.1	So to me that sounds crazy. And the reason is that I believe we're in a deterministic universe. I'm
0:23.4	guessing you do not. I don't believe we're in a deterministic universe. I believe in a stochastic universe.
0:28.5	Okay, defined stochastic. Stochastic means there's randomness in the universe. My father was a biostatistician,
0:35.5	and he was a devout Christian. I said, what gives, dad? You know I'm an adolescent? What gives? And he said, you don't understand. He said, you know what miracles are? And I said, what? He said, events that are five standard deviations off away from the mean. They're way out of the tails of the, of the curves. You know know the greatest gift that god ever gave the world was
0:54.1	was a distribution a random distribution of events he believed and i think it's actually more than
1:01.8	plausible i think it's most likely that the universe is actually has randomness in it which means it
1:07.7	cannot be you can't get to a single point on most of the, or any of the
1:12.7	complex problems.
1:14.2	You can't, and so you can simulate a kind of a version of a curve fit, but you can't actually
1:20.1	get underneath them and simulate them properly, because we have a stochastic universe,
1:25.6	and we live with deterministic brains. Our brains say that this happens to this and this happens to this. We have a stochastic universe, and we live with deterministic brains.
1:28.3	Our brains say that this happens to this and this happens to this.
1:31.1	We have a supercomputer that's good enough.
1:32.4	We can figure out how it all hangs together.
1:34.3	And that's the supposition behind Einsteinian physics or Newtonian physics,
1:40.9	that there's a deterministic structure underneath that we're simulating. We're doing
1:45.0	the best that we can to put a model on top. It's a map. But that's actually probably not the
1:50.4	way the universe works. And if that's the case, and if we have a craving for the source of that,
1:55.8	then it's some thing, some one, some entity that can be the origin of that complexity per se. What is it?
2:05.5	What is it? You know, it's like maybe my model, which is, yeah, I got the Bible and I got God
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