Arthur Brooks
Everything Arthur personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"electrolytes and with some creatine monohydrate 10 grams because I don't want the just you know that second five grams is really good for your brain"
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"Workaholism is a terrible way to deal with your anxiety."
"you're kind of staying in and scrolling and watching YouTube Shorts"
"You don't get oxytocin through Zoom screens. You get a different kind of experience when you have the in real life experience."
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"Steven Cave at Cambridge has written a really beautiful book called Immortality. Have you actually seen it? Have you read it? He's a philosopher and he talks about the fact that the human brain is able to capture the concept of physical death but is incapable of understanding non-existence."
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"Can't wait to read Protocols, by the way."
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"There's a great book by a guy named Sam Sheridan called A Fighter's Heart. He's actually a Harvard grad. And he has this joke that sparring is like a one-night stand or something — you've done something very intimate with someone you barely know."
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"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 complex moral sensibilities that they actually possessed and just quantifying it. I read that and said, 'I just want to do that.'"
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"we only ask either ask questions that can be addressed by Google or ChatGPT or we believe that if we have enough scientific knowledge that these questions can be answered."
"ChatGPT can't ask or can't give you any information about questions that really matter for the meaning of your life."
"I couldn't put into ChatGPT, you know, how do I never have an argument with my wife again? I would get garbage back."
"If AI can answer your question, it's not a meaning question... And ChatGPT will give you nonsense"
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"You get up and you go to work, which is on Zoom, and then you date on the app and your friends are on socials."
"You don't get oxytocin through Zoom screens. You get a different kind of experience when you have the in real life experience."
"Make sure that you have a remote job and you look at a screen all day long so that your colleagues are kind of squares on the Zoom screen and you see them sometimes and you don't actually know where anybody lives and you don't have a relationship with anybody"
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"The Matrix, came out 27 years ago. The plot of that movie was that a great artificial intelligence was dominating the human race and kept the human race placid in a pleasant simulation."
"You and I are old enough to remember The Matrix. That movie was about a mechanical artificial intelligence that was sucking out their attention, their energy, keeping them in suspended animation by feeding them a pleasant simulacrum for real life."
"You and I are old enough to remember The Matrix. That movie was about a mechanical artificial intelligence that was sucking out their attention, their energy, keeping them in suspended animation by feeding them a pleasant simulacrum for real life. Dude, we're in the simulation."
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"Do you remember Norman Vincent Peele? Does that name ring a bell? Okay. He had a very famous self-help book in the 60s called The Power of Positive Thinking."
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"People listen to Bach B minor mass and it's like they they weep. Why? And and they they can't explain as a matter of fact, anytime that you become emotional and you can't quite explain it, it means you're having a right hemispheric experience."
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"He wrote the four cardinal virtues. He's a great 20th century German philosopher who did tectonically important work."
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"There's a very famous book called the way of a pilgrim about a mendicant beggar walking around praying this Jesus prayer because a monk told him that he should pray the Jesus prayer 10,000 times a day."
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"Man's Search for Meaning of his most famous book of course."
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"A lot of what we're talking about here you can learn just by reading the Brothers K."
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"He's great here at the Good Life and he actually guest lectures for me at Harvard sometimes."
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"He wrote a book called Something Beautiful for God where he kind of discovered for the whole world Mother Teresa."
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"you're kind of staying in and scrolling and watching YouTube Shorts"
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"Workaholism is a terrible way to deal with your anxiety."
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