Do You Miss Running the Thing Tank?

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There was a time when, you know, it was like the beginning of covid and i didn't, i didn't know who i was. It turns out that's actually quite common. I have to write for human beings that can understand what i'm writing, which favors crystallized intelligence all day long. And so my writing is for io, an average audience of half a million people a week in the atlantic.

Arthur C. Brooks used to run a prominent think tank where he was paid handsomely to influence public policy. Did all that success make him happy? Nope. So Arthur quit his job and set out to transform his life. Now he has written a book about what he learned along the way, the #1 New York Times bestseller “From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life.”

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