Arthur Brooks

"I practice the Brahma muhorta which in Sanskrit means the creator's time. That means I get up before dawn."

"Lord Jesus Christ, son of the living God, have mercy on me a sinner. You pray the first half as you breathe in and the second half as you breathe out. The last 15 years I've gone to sleep praying that prayer every night."

"You gave me the diary of wisdom from Tolstoy calendar of wisdom. The calendar of wisdom. You gave it the last time I was here. It's so good to read right before bed."

"I drink a lot of dark roast Starbucks. You know, the more they burn it, the better I like it"

"I'm always excited when uh on on on Apple podcast I see there's a new found my fitness"

"Greek yogurt has a lot of tryptophan in it and that will actually hold you"

"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"

"I also work I've studied vipassana meditation and stoic philosophy"

"I have a column every week in the free press um called The Pursuit of Happiness"

"I also work I've studied vipassana meditation and stoic philosophy"

"Reading to your partner is an incredibly good way. We've been reading psalms and love poetry. We read to each other a lot at night."

"I think probably his best book is called leisure the basis of culture where he talked about the fact that your understanding of yourself and our society's understanding of itself actually doesn't come from work it comes from leisure."

"If we read one Camus we'll read the myth of Sisyphus, right? That's the one thing to read. If we're talking happiness, that's the one we should read."

"Self-reliance is everybody. Everybody should read Self-Reliance. Self-reliance is like a tall glass of cool water on a summer day in Bastrop, Texas."

"I recommend the Brahma Muhurta, which in Sanskrit means the creator's time. Get up at least a half an hour before dawn and an hour-long walk without devices. It's a good protocol to reprogram your brain for 30 days."

"There's a great test called the positive a effect negative a effect sequence PANAS and people can take it online"

"Bruce Filer does this work called Life is in the Transitions. It's really nice."

"What they train Marines to do in leadership is to get to 80% knowledge and then choose and stop looking. Use the marine rule of leadership."

"Hold hands while you stare into each other's eyes deeply for 5-10 minutes. This really, really, really works."

"You can save most marriages by holding hands more and always looking at each other in the eyes when you talk. This will save most marriages."

"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."

"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."

"He wrote the four cardinal virtues. He's a great 20th century German philosopher who did tectonically important work."

"ChatGPT can't ask or can't give you any information about questions that really matter for the meaning of your life."

"You remember in 1999, that's 27 years ago now, that's when The Matrix came out. Cal, we're in the matrix. We're stuck in the matrix."

"Man's Search for Meaning of his most famous book of course."

"A lot of what we're talking about here you can learn just by reading the Brothers K."

"The calendar of wisdom. You gave it the last time I was here, as a matter of fact. It's so good to read right before bed."

"He wrote a book called Something Beautiful for God where he kind of discovered for the whole world Mother Teresa."

"He's great here at the Good Life and he actually guest lectures for me at Harvard sometimes."

"Workaholism is a terrible way to deal with your anxiety."