Arthur Brooks
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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"
"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"
"I drink a lot of dark roast Starbucks. You know, the more they burn it, the better I like it"
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"Workaholism is a terrible way to deal with your anxiety."
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Clear filters"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"
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."