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Brooks: Authentic Happiness Comes From Faith, Family, Friendship, and Work
“There are four idols that people chase in life. Money, power, pleasure, and honor, by which he meant fame, and which we mean prestige in life. Those are idols that never bring satisfaction. They run you in the wrong direction. If you want to be ambitious for t…”
Brooks: Satisfaction equals what you have divided by what you want
“Satisfaction doesn't come from what you have. Satisfaction comes from what you have divided by what you want. And each of us, if we actually want to find enduring satisfaction, no matter where we are economically, we need a wants management strategy.”
Brooks: Society treats poor people as liabilities instead of assets
“The problem that we have is we treat the poor as liabilities to manage, as opposed to assets to develop.”
Brooks: Government applies complicated engineering fixes to complex human problems
“All of life's big problems that are hard to solve are complex, adaptive, human dynamic problems. And all of the solutions that we get from government are complicated.”
Brooks: Social media cannot solve loneliness through engineering
“The problem with social media today is social media is a complicated solution to a complex problem of loneliness. It's a basically, it's an app based complicated engineering solution to the problem of love. That's why it's utterly inadequate and not up to the …”
Brooks: Escaping poverty reduces unhappiness rather than creating happiness
“Money never bought happiness. Even early on, you find that people actually have a higher affect balance. They feel better about their lives when they go from poor to not poor. It's absolutely true, but it's not because they're getting happier. This sounds like…”
Brooks: Entrepreneurs View Money as a Scorecard, Not the End Goal
“Josef Schumpeter, the father of modern entrepreneurship, the understanding, the professor at Harvard, but he was a visionary. He said that entrepreneurs actually don't care about money per se More than the fact that it's a scorecard for what they're building.”