The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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00:00 Intro
01:08 Successful Enough
08:50 Workaholism & Participation Trophies
14:30 Happy Heavy Men
19:56 Political Tribalism
25:35 What Is Love?
33:40 Does Love Exist?
39:20 Religion
51:19 Billionaires In The Jungle
54:20 Microsoft
56:03 Marijuana & Creatine
59:55 Social Media & AI
1:07:30 Jubilee
1:15:40 Ketamine / Anxiety
1:24:55 Happy Conservatives
1:30:45 Male Loneliness
1:39:25 Your Feelings Are Liars
1:43:58 Nihilism
1:49:08 Psychology
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| 1:09.9 | Which is exactly wrong. Look, there's |
| 1:11.9 | one thing in life you can't simulate, which is meaning. Welcome back to the checkup podcast. Today's |
| 1:17.5 | guest is Arthur Brooks, behavioral scientist, Harvard Business School professor, and one of the |
| 1:22.7 | sharpest minds on what actually makes people happy. He's also the author of a new book called The |
| 1:28.1 | Meaning of Your Life, Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, which is available for pre-order |
| 1:33.7 | now. This guy is a quote machine. For example, did you know that heavier men are happier |
| 1:39.4 | on average? It's not because of the gentlemanly paunch. |
| 1:45.0 | How about that liberal woman tend to be sadder than their conservative counterparts? |
| 1:49.0 | Why is that? |
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