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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with Dr. Arthur Brooks to tackle one of life’s most enduring questions: What is happiness? Drawing from his latest book, The Happiness Files, as well as decades of scholarship and teaching, Dr. Brooks offers profound insights into not only the nature of happiness itself, but also the deeper dimensions of love, loss, and meaning. Together, they examine the science behind happiness, the obstacles modern society places in its path, and the practical wisdom Dr. Brooks shares with his students—most memorably through his signature exercise, “What is my idol?”
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| 1:04.8 | Hey, folks, today we are going to be playing a conversation I had last week with Arthur Brooks. |
| 1:13.1 | He's kind of a big deal, as you'll see. |
| 1:15.9 | This was a Socrates in the studio conversation with Arthur Brooks. |
| 1:23.0 | In the last part of Hour 2 today, we're going to play and ask metaxus that I did recently. |
| 1:31.9 | But here is my conversation with Arthur Brooks. |
| 1:36.1 | I am mystified by how difficult this is for me. |
| 1:38.9 | I think, let's say, pleasure and power, I would say. |
| 1:47.1 | Those are the two. |
| 1:48.0 | Those are pretty easy to say like, that's, that's not my thing. |
| 1:51.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.6 | These aren't your things. |
| 1:53.1 | And if you had the average amount of pleasure, you'd be okay and comfort and security, you'd be okay. |
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