The Happiness 401(k): Why the Strivers Are at Risk Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and happiness researcher, had a defining experience on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Washington. Behind…
Arthur Brooks — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Arthur Brooks has appeared on 14 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including All the Hacks: Money, Points & Life, The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, Office Hours with Arthur Brooks. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Arthur said
“God is love, and music is the language of love. Therefore, music is the language of God.”
— Peter Krieft, quoted by Arthur Brooks
“I don't know if he's right. But I know that you can go find your Rossini. If you do, you can be happier.”
— Arthur Brooks
“Falling in love is an entrepreneurial act.”
— Arthur Brooks
Episode appearances
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Arthur Brooks, a behavioral scientist who has spent decades studying well-being, argues that happiness is not a feeling but a skill—one that can be deliberately built by balancing three…
Arthur Brooks opens with a personal example: when someone expresses political views that sharply disagree with his own, he instinctively shifts into researcher mode. “Tell me more,” he says. This,…
The Real Crisis of Love in Your Twenties The most common complaint Arthur Brooks hears from young people today isn't about careers, money, or stress — it's about meaninglessness. And the root of…
Arthur Brooks opens this episode of Office Hours with a story about an elderly acquaintance who lived by the motto "I give, but I don't take." She refused even a glass of water when visiting…
Arthur Brooks opens this episode of Office Hours with a confession: he grew up in Seattle, a city so gloomy that locals joked the weather kept Californians away. But he married a woman from…
Arthur Brooks opens this episode of Office Hours with a provocative claim: the average person tells two lies to a stranger within the first ten minutes of conversation. This statistic from the…
The Language of the Right Brain Arthur Schopenhauer, the famously pessimistic 19th-century German philosopher who argued that rational people should be pessimists, nonetheless believed that music…
How to Stay in Love with Your Soul Mate Arthur Brooks and his wife Esther Moon Brooks have been married for 35 years, and they open this episode by telling the story of how they met: at a music…
Arthur Brooks opens this episode of Office Hours with a confession: left to his own devices, when his wife took the kids to visit family in Barcelona, he would think, "Now I'm gonna work 16 hours…
Burnout Is Not a Life Sentence In 1880, Fyodor Dostoevsky had one of his characters in The Brothers Karamazov predict that the saintly young Alyosha would "burn and burn out." Nearly a century…
Nothing Feels Real Anymore Because It Isn't "Most people have no idea where their testosterone levels sit. But what if I told you there was a solution?" That ad break, sandwiched between Arthur…
Arthur Brooks, a Harvard social scientist who has spent decades studying happiness, opens the conversation with a startling statistic: depression has tripled and anxiety has doubled since 2008,…
Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and happiness columnist for The Atlantic, spent decades studying human behavior before realizing he was missing the boat. A self-described anxious and gloomy…
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