What podcasts say about Arthur C. Brooks
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What Arthur C. Brooks has said on podcasts
50 statements · 22 positive · 21 negative · 7 neutral
Feelings of happiness are evidence rather than the definition of happiness.
“the feelings of happiness are evidence of happiness”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 4:59
Happiness consists of enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.
“there are 3 macronutrients to the happiest life. The happiest people have enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 6:28
Pursuing pleasure alone does not produce happiness.
“The pursuit of pleasure is not the secret to happiness. It's the secret to rehab”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 6:45
Avoiding unhappiness and suffering can undermine happiness.
“If you spend your life, which many people do today, trying to avoid unhappiness, trying to avoid and eliminate suffering, they will paradoxically miss their own happiness.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 7:32
Pleasure becomes enjoyment when integrated with moral aspiration.
“When we convert pleasure into enjoyment, it's because it takes on moral aspiration to it.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 10:04
Hard exercise supports emotional regulation and overall functioning.
“hard exercise, picking up heavy things and, and, and running around, is fundamental to affect management and also to the maintenance maintenance of the overall functioning of how the machine works.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 15:43
Negative emotions function as an alarm system.
“You need negative emotions because negative emotions are an alarm system”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 16:59
Publicly declaring commitments creates commitment bias.
“this gives you a commitment bias”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 22:50
Moral-foundation survey responses strongly predict voting preferences.
“if you tell me in a structured survey what you think is right on those particular issues, I have a very high degree of certitude in guessing how you vote, actually.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 33:09
Proper leisure includes nonessential learning and metaphysical development.
“The second is learning something you don't need to learn. And the third is actually developing yourself metaphysically, is your spiritual, your religious life, or your philosophical life.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 37:25
Satisfaction is joy from accomplishing something after struggle.
“Satisfaction, as I define it, as many people define it, is the joy that you get from an accomplishment after struggle.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 52:15
Humans are oriented toward progress toward goals.
“progress toward goals is what is how we're wired.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 55:12
Olympic athletes are especially prone to depression after winning gold medals.
“It's why Olympic athletes are so likely to fall into a clinical depression after they win their gold medal.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 55:43
Humans are built to earn rewards and success.
“We are built to earn our rewards. We are built to earn our success.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 59:09
Pursuing worldly rewards often comes at the expense of love.
“when you pursue these things, you're doing it at cost, and the cost is almost always love.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 1:11:34
Worldly rewards fail to provide lasting satisfaction and create a hedonic treadmill.
“They won't deliver the satisfaction that you seek, but your brain tells you that they will. That will put you on what we in my community call the hedonic treadmill.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 1:51:33
Meaning is associated with the brain’s complex, nonquantifiable processing.
“And that's where meaning resides, which is the last macronutrient of this.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 1:59:13
Meaning is the biggest current crisis in happiness.
“You want to know the biggest crisis we face in happiness? It's meaning.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:00:38
Device-free mornings, evenings, and meals can disrupt technological addiction.
“You can break the cycle of technological addiction in your life simply by doing first hour of the day, last hour of the day, and mealtimes.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:03:54
Suffering can help people understand life’s meaning.
“suffering helps you understand the meaning of your life, per se.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:05:53
All observed human societies show a sense of the divine and desire for transcendence.
“all human societies that we've been able to ascertain have a sense of the divine, have a sense of the things that we actually cannot see, and we have an innate desire for it.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:11:03
Faith develops through practice, then belief, then feeling.
“the protocol for individual faith is not feeling, belief, practice. It's practice, belief, feeling.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:18:11
Religiosity tends to increase with age.
“People tend to get more religious as they get older.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:21:05
Isolating one component of a natural experience can make it addictive and pathological.
“When you shear something off from the whole experience, that's when it actually becomes addictive. That's when it becomes pathological.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:30:39
Success addiction can cause workaholism through conditional self-worth.
“success addiction leads to workaholism. Success addiction, once again, is really downstream from earning love, from the belief that I can be enough if I do enough.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:34:03
Fame can accompany happiness but cannot itself cause happiness.
“fame is the only one of the worldly rewards you can only ever be happy in spite of, never because of.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:37:26
People should choose happiness over the pursuit of exceptional status.
“the moral aspiration is to choose happiness over that particular specialness.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:43:06
Everyone should consider walking the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain.
“I recommend that everybody go on a 500-mile walk across Northern Spain from the French border to Santiago de Compostela.”
Open the episode · The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur BrooksListen at 2:45:31
Algorithms create simulated life while extracting attention, energy, and money.
“we are subjugated not by people necessarily, but by algorithms that fundamentally are creating a simulated version of a real life that's pleasant enough, keeps us from being bored, and that feeds off our attention and energy and money”
Open the episode · Harvard Professor: Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore - Arthur Brooks - #1109Listen at 0:31
The right brain handles complex questions about meaning and mystery.
“The right hemisphere is the complex why? The mystery and meaning of life.”
Open the episode · Harvard Professor: Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore - Arthur Brooks - #1109Listen at 2:10
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