Success Is Killing You: How Culture Built You to Break, Burn Out & Give Up | Arthur Brooks (Fan Fav)

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Given all of the possibilities we have living in a modern society, people still struggle with feeling lost, unhappy, and unfulfilled. It’s even been reported that American unhappiness hit a record low early this year. If you do a climate check with the people in your life and your social media pages, it’s not hard to see that sadly behind some of the smiles, there’s a feeling of unhappiness in the air. Arthur C. 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. He’s discussing why he felt called to explore and research the human experience and model of what actually brings us happiness. If money, fame, power, and pleasure doesn’t bring permanent happiness, then what does? How can you ensure a trajectory of life that leads to happiness and fulfillment? ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 5-17-22 Check out Arthur’s latest book, From Strength to Strength: https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Finding-Success-Happiness-Purpose/dp/059319148X/ SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Arthur Brooks 0:44 | Lost and Unhappy with life 10:57 | The Model of Happiness 19:16 | The Curve of Intelligence 26:30 | Being Entrepreneurial 30:54 | Becoming Fully Alive 43:35 | Chasing the Happiness Idol 53:46 | Truthful to Yourself 58:02 | Polarity of Values & Fear 1:13:11 | Happiness & Affect Profiles 1:20:28 | Motive Attribution What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER SCALING a business: see if you qualify here. Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here. ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** Join me live on my Twitch stream. I'm live daily from 6:30 to 8:30 am PT at www.twitch.tv/tombilyeu ********************************************************************** LISTEN TO IMPACT THEORY AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/impacttheory ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard the Turkish Airlines podcast channel.
0:07.3	Are you ready for a new adventure?
0:11.1	Mayor Habba passengers, this is your captain speaking.
0:13.6	Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.
0:26.6	Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. Humans are not intended to decline.
0:30.5	Decline is hugely painful because happiness comes from progress.
0:35.1	Unhappiness comes from regress.
0:40.4	Arthur Brooks, welcome to the show.
0:42.3	Thank you, Tom.
0:43.1	What a joy to be with you.
0:44.5	Longtime viewer, first time guest.
0:47.9	I seriously doubt this would be the last time.
0:50.1	Your book Strength to Strength blew me away.
0:53.0	It was one of those where I actually got emotional reading the book because, as I was telling you before we started rolling, I have spent a long time haunted by the idea that genius is a young man's game.
1:06.0	And that ties into my first question, which is why do so many people feel lost and unhappy?
1:13.8	And what can they do about it?
1:15.7	People feel lost and unhappy is basically part of what it means to be human.
1:20.5	And there's an irony in having the big brains that we do.
1:24.8	We developed a very large human brain over the past 40 million
1:28.3	years for all kinds of reasons. I mean, it's that it gives us a, it's our genetic advantage that we
1:33.8	could say. It gives us help. It's our survival. We're not fast. You know, we're not very good climbers.
1:37.9	You know, we don't have a lot of hair on our bodies, but we got big, these big prefrontal cortex of the brain. The problem with that is that we can understand
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