Arthur Brooks on What It Takes to Find Happiness

Arthur Brooks is a bestselling author, social scientist, and the President of the American Enterprise Institute. He teaches Leadership and Happiness at the Harvard School of Business. In this episode, Eric and Arthur discuss happiness as well as his book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! Arthur Brooks and I Discuss What It Takes to Find Happiness and…

His book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt

The four extrinsic things that feed off fear are money, power, pleasure, and fame

The four intrinsic things that feed off love are faith, family, friendships, and meaningful work

How happiness requires meaning and having meaning requires challenge and/or difficulty

The three aspects of meaning are coherence, purpose, and significance

How writing out the thing you learned from a bad experience can bring meaning to it

Learning to find significance in the small things

How we need to stop living in the future and appreciate being in the present

The freeing idea that nobody really cares like we think they do

The more you judge others, the more you will feel judged

The therapy for feeling insecure is to stop judging and start observing

The link between humor and happiness

How we should reject grimness

Rejecting the expectations of the holidays can lead to more happiness

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