The Art of True Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

“No, yeah, no, the point was to suffer together in some way. There's a great book by a guy named Sam Sheridan called A Fighter's Heart. He's actually a Harvard grad, yeah, I think he was an art major there. His dad was a Navy SEAL, very interesting guy, and he has this joke that you know, uh, you know, that sparring is like a one-night stand or something.”

“That's a joke aimed at one Swiss scientist in particular. You've read Michael Poland's new book. I haven't read the new one. The World Awaits. But I think the world of him. He's fantastic. And the new book is actually the book to read for people who are not either philosophers or neuroscientists or even psychologists for that matter on a world of weights is what it's called.”

“professionals for a book that I was starting to write that came out after I left and when I was already back in academia called From Strength to Strength. It was a book about getting happier as you get older. And this woman is like a billionaire. I mean, unbelievable, named firm, famous.”

“an all-knowing, all-loving God. I mean, Stephen Cave at Cambridge has a really beautiful book called Immortality. Have you actually seen it? Have you read it? And he's a philosopher. And he talks about the fact that the human brain is able to capture the concept of physical death.”

“His most important book was Leisure: the Basis of Culture. That's his most inflecting. It's actually a long essay. It's very, very beautiful. He says, I can tell you everything you need to know about a culture by how they actually use leisure.”

“He had done works. He had written a great book called The Moral Sense. That was the first time that a social scientist had actually used the tools of empirical social science survey-based data to understand the moral sensibilities, the complex moral sensibilities that they actually possessed and just quantifying it.”