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Welcome to Raising Good Humans Podcast.

I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman, and I am so honored and excited to share with you my episode with Dr.

Arthur Brooks.

You might know him from the many bestselling books that he's written,

including one with Oprah Winfrey, build the life you want. But in addition to that,

his new book coming out called The Meaning of Your Life. Also, I love this conversation because

not only are we talking about meaning at a time

when it is really hard to find it and the concrete ways to really live this life, but also my

daughter, my college-age daughter, Penelope, gave me questions because she saw Arthur Brooks speaking,

and she said, I have some questions that I want you to ask as well. So it was really fun at the

end of the episode to do like a Q&A in the mind of what a 19-year-old wants to know about,

not just what we want to know about. The number one most popular topic in my MBA class on happiness is falling in love and staying in love. And the second is actually how to get along with your parents. Really? Yeah. Third is making friends. Fourth is finding God. Huh. Those are the topics that they really want. And they're all about love. They're all love-related topics. I mean, how many kids do you have? Three. How old are they? Two of them are married, 27, 25, and 22. My 27, 25-year-olds got married to 22 and 23, and now they're their first kids at 23 and 24. What are they? What are they? Aliens. They're zombies. They're boys. And my 27-year-old, they live with us with their sons in our house. And the 25-year-old, he's a sniper in the Marine Corps he got out of a year ago. And he... Oh, my God. Yeah, he's a tough ombre. He's 6'5. And he's got two sons and they live up the street. And then my daughter is 22 and she's not married. She just graduated from college. She's a second lieutenant of the Marine Corps. So, yeah. I know. I mean, it's like my kids are from, they think I'm like some sort of freaked out hippie reprobate that might, you know, like, no, they're like judge. They're like, looking at least to judge mentally. Yeah, like, you know, we're not like you, when you were in our 20s, you and mom, you know, it's like, well, I don't know, you're probably smoking dope or something. They're like, we're going to do the opposite. Completely. It's like 1940s. That is crazy. My kids are all religious. They're all, yeah, yeah. They all vote differently than me. Wow. Yeah. And like, as you'd expect. And feel loved. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, they're awesome. They're awesome. They think for themselves. What the rebellion is for my kids and a lot of their friends is they're not rebelling against social stricter

they're rebelling against a miserable culture and decline yeah they're they're rebelling against

lies and and they're embracing ancient truth that's what they're you a lot of my friends, their kids are going to temple, right? I mean, a lot, a lot, a lot. And just like, nobody at your age was like, as your kid, it's like, if you'd been going to temple, it's like, what, is your dad, is your father a rabbi? Actually, my daughter's, that's exactly right. My daughter was like Friday night, everybody,

whether they're Jewish or not, they're going to the like Friday night Shabbat at school.

I'm like, what?

I know. I know. And so, yeah, we grew up and my kids thrived in an Opus Day Catholic school.

Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, I'm power to him. That's amazing. Joining the military. I'm a, military. I'm a, I'm a musician. My wife dropped out of high school at 16, this thing with a rock band, moved in with some older Italian guy. And her parents were like, it's cool. Wow. Yeah. I'm, so... I know. And they think that,

you know, we're bad citizens and we're a bad seed, but good thing. We got things back on track,

my kids think. And you brought religion into their lives, though. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm religious.

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