#110 How To Build Lasting Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

“Now we are. So the same way that, you know, we need pain for lots and lots of things. We created analgesics that got, that escalated in power to the point we're able literally to get rid of all of the pain. And a hundred thousand people died of drug overdoses last year as a result. We're homo sapiens. We're incredibly ingenious at getting rid of little problems and creating massive problems.”

“He's got a couple of New York Times bestselling books from strength to strength, Build the Life You Want.”

“Then and I haven't ingested anything except. You know, electrolytes and with some creatine monohydrate, 10 grams, because I don't I don't want that. Just, you know, that second five grams is really good. For your brain. Yeah, et cetera, et cetera.”

“forward is a real problem. Yeah. It's a real problem. And so the first one that I do talk about in From Strength to Strength, which is a book about how to design the second half of your life and being prepared for that in the first half of your life, is actually jumping, is recognizing that the past is in the past and you need to proactively build a different future for yourself.”

“That's contested, but works for me. I don't get the crash in the afternoon. And then only then I eat and I get about 60 grams of protein in my first meal of the day, which is really good. Greek yogurt has a lot of tryptophan in it, and that will actually hold you. And when I do that, when I get to work, I get three and a half hours of concentrated creative work, which you don't get otherwise.”

“you can sit on the couch and eat Haagen-Dazs and binge Netflix, or you can get up and do leg day.”

“Bruce Feiler does this work called Life Is in the Transitions. It's really nice.”

“Were you still working out when the sun was warm? I would go before. I would work out before I went into the lab. Okay. Yeah. And I started doing the sauna before I went into the lab. Because it was the only way I could deal with going into the lab. Yeah. I got it. Yeah. I got it. No, I get it. So you were probably waking up at 4.30 in those days and working out from 5 to 6 or something?”

“He wrote a book called something beautiful for God, where he kind of discovered for the whole world. Mother Teresa”

“Thomas Aquinas writes, writes the Summa Theologiae in 1265, this magisterial text bringing platonic and especially Aristotelian ideas to more modern audiences.”

“Just read, you know, Henry David Thoreau's Walden. He talks about solitude and how lovely that is.”