Why You Can't Be Satisfied

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"If you're not happy, mother nature doesn't care. That's your problem," he says. "You need to accumulate faith, family, friendship and work that serves others." And so you got to go from the bad for to the good for. All right. With less desperation and panic. You mentioned people may admire you for the work that you do, for the accomplishments that you have. The reason for that is tat our brains have been evolved to want to to cumulate those rewards.

#363: In our 20’s and 30’s, we have high levels of fluid intelligence, or raw intellectual horsepower. We can ace tests, impress people with our memory and recall, and analyze facts, documents and data.

But in our 40’s and 50’s, we have higher levels of crystallized intelligence, which allows us to draw together novel insights from across domains.

Fluid intelligence allows us to analyze, or break apart.

Crystallized intelligence allows us to synthesize, or put together.

Each type of intelligence invites us to express different skills, to pivot our role at work – or perhaps even to change careers or industries altogether.

In today’s episode, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks discusses these two types of intelligence, and outlines how we can gracefully move from one strength to the next.

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