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1792: The Secrets of Happy People With Arthur C. Brooks

Apr 14, 2022

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How Do You Balance Fear and Love?

03:21

How to Get More Happiness

03:36

What Happens After Forty?

05:56

Introduction

4min

Are We So Complex That It's Almost Imperative?

3min

You Get More Credibility When You Explain You Don't Know

6min

How Do You Balance Fear and Love?

3min

How to Get More Happiness

4min

Is Social Comparison the Thief of Joy?

3min

How Do You Overprotect Your Kids?

3min

The World's Scary Place

2min

What Motivated You to Write This Book?

5min

10.

The Relationship Between Money and Success

2min

11.

The Crystallized Intelligence Curve

3min

12.

Is There a Difference Between Youth and Wisdom?

3min

13.

What I Missed Most About Personal Training

4min

14.

What Happens After Forty?

6min

15.

I've Never Seen Extremism So Popular

4min

16.

Are You a Leader?

3min

17.

When You're Lonely, Do the Opposite of What You Want to Do

4min

18.

The Five Reasons Why Are You Happy?

2min

19.

You're the Good One. You've Got to Put Effort and Focus on It

6min

20.

You Can't Forget This

2min

21.

The Biggest Mistake the People Make When They Work in an Investment Bank

5min

22.

The Key Thing About Good Therapy Is Understanding Yourself Better

2min

23.

Are You Trying to Dump Body Fat?

3min

24.

How I Learned From My Dad's Death

5min

25.

The Best Advice for Fatherhood, Don't Frustrate

1min

26.

The Happiness Podcast

4min

27.

You're a Passionate Person, but You Have to Practice This

2min

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with New York Times best selling author, Harvard professor and happiness expert, Arthur Brooks on what happiness is and how to achieve it.

What is a social scientist? (3:33)
Why does academia lack humility? (4:38)
The massive human experiment that is the coronavirus pandemic. (7:58)
Is fear or control the biggest deterrent to your pursuit of happiness? (10:23)
Why there is fear-based polarity in the US. (16:32)
The comparison trap, that is social media. (19:05)
Why do parents tend to overprotect their children? (21:40)
What motivated him to write his new book? (25:50)
The commonalities of the happy as they age. (30:42)
Why wisdom is knowing how to use what you know. (33:20)
How life is not that interesting when you don’t have diversity. (36:50)
The importance of having a spiritual practice. (41:05)
The big problems created by the coronavirus and how to combat them. (45:14)
When you hate, someone is profiting. (50:12)
Arthur’s hopeful mindset for the future. (53:37)
The Opposite Signal Strategy (OSS) to combat loneliness. (55:42)
The thought experiment of understanding your intrinsic vs. extrinsic reward system. (57:39)
Do not let success ruin your happiness! (1:03:13)
How critical is the partner we choose to do this life with? (1:07:02)
Beware of success addiction. (1:09:26)
The practices of a healthy relationship. (1:16:50)
Being the child of a social scientist. (1:21:33)
Mind Pump, the happiness podcast. (1:26:40)
What is the secret to communicating with people with opposing views? (1:27:47)