Arthur Brooks on how to build a meaningful life
Arthur Brooks is a bestselling author and Harvard professor best known for his work on the science of happiness. He joins host Jeff Berman to reveal the insights at the heart of his new book: The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.
Link to Arthur's new book The Meaning of Your Life: https://www.arthurbrooks.com/books/the-meaning-of-your-life
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Conversation with Arthur Brooks — The Pillars of Happiness
Arthur Brooks, a professor at Harvard University and the co-author of “Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier,” joins Scott to discuss the state of happiness in the US, how to improve your own happiness, and the role religion or some other spiritual means play in one’s life.
Scott opens with his thoughts on Elon Musk and his obsession with litigation.
Algebra of Happiness: being the parent.
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Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment, By The People, and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead.
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Timestamps
(00:00) - Intro
(01:00) - Writing Human Accomplishment
(06:30) - The Lotka curve, age, and miracle years
(10:38) - Habits of the greats (hard work)
(15:22) - Focus and explore in your 20s
(19:57) - Living in Thailand
(23:02) - Peace, wealth, and golden ages
(26:02) - East, west, and religion
(30:38) - Christianity and the Enlightenment
(34:44) - Institutional sclerosis
(37:43) - Antonine Rome, decadence, and declining accomplishment
(42:13) - Crisis in social science
(45:40) - Can secular humanism win?
(55:00) - Future of Christianity
(1:03:30) - Liberty and accomplishment
(1:06:08) - By the People
(1:11:17) - American exceptionalism
(1:14:49) - Pessimism about reform
(1:18:43) - Can libertarianism be resuscitated?
(1:25:18) - Trump's deregulation and judicial nominations
(1:28:11) - Beating the federal government
(1:32:05) - Why don't big companies have a litigation fund?
(1:34:05) - Getting around the Halo effect
(1:36:07) - What happened to the Madison fund?
(1:37:00) - Future of liberty
(1:41:00) - Public sector unions
(1:43:43) - Andrew Yang and UBI
(1:44:36) - Groundhog Day
(1:47:05) - Getting noticed as a young person
(1:50:48) - Passage from Human Accomplishment
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a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
Focusing only on the technical, "crunchy, wonky stuff" behind policies or products sometimes misses the humanity at the center of why we're doing the thing in the first place. Because systems -- whether algorithms and artificial intelligence, or capitalism and other such "operating systems" -- need to work for people, not the other way around. Or so observes economist and author Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) -- a public policy think tank focused on free enterprise (and where he recently announced he will be passing on the baton after a decade of leadership).
So how does this philosophy of human dignity and human potential apply to automation and jobs, to education, to entrepreneurship? And not just in the "conventional" entrepreneurial sense of building companies and products -- but in changing one's life? The answer, argues Brooks in this quick, hallway-style episode of the a16z Podcast with Sonal Chokshi (recorded in one of our earlier Washington, D.C. roadshows) -- has to be rooted in the philosophy of human meaning. And that involves truly needing each other... so no one is left behind given technological progress and innovation.
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