Arthur Brooks
35 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 14 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2024 by Arthur Brooks · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 1 episode
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May 21, 2024 negative
May 21, 2024 positive
May 21, 2024
Brooks: Dark Triad personality traits appear in 7% of the population
“And this happens, by the way, in seven percent of the population. No joke. Scott Barry Kaufman, who has that wonderful psychology podcast, he's sort of the world's leading expert on the prevalence. He's, he'd be a great guest, actually. So the prevalence of th…”
May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024 negative
Brooks: Hating political opponents makes you an exploited product for others
“When you hate somebody for political or ideological reasons, you become somebody's product. And that's an important thing to keep in mind. Somebody's profiting, and it ain't you. On the contrary, you're gonna get a lot less happy, and you're gonna have fewer f…”
May 21, 2024 positive
May 21, 2024 negative
Brooks: Over 20 years, women's happiness has declined to men's levels
“But what you've found is that over the past 20 years or so, women have converged downward to the unhappiness levels of men. So they've converged, and at first I thought, great, men are getting happier. Women are getting unhappier is what we find, and they're g…”
May 21, 2024 positive
May 21, 2024 positive
Brooks: Walking deviceless before dawn is the secret to finding clarity
“The advice I wind up giving to people is getting up an hour and a half before dawn. It's the Brahma Muhurta, the creator's time. And going outside when it's cool and dark and walking for an hour without your device, and you can hear the crunch of the gravel on…”
May 21, 2024
Brooks: Physical proximity to happy, obese, or heavy-drinking peers spreads those traits
“If you're in physical proximity with people who are obese, you're much more likely to become obese. Around people who, you know, drink too much, you're much more likely to drink too much. And if you're around people who are happier, you get happier too, becaus…”
May 21, 2024 negative
Brooks: Virtuous victimhood and grievance bullying are classic Dark Triad behaviors
“Virtuous victimhood is the phenomenon in which leaders will get their prestige from the grievance that they get from particular victimhood status, and that virtuousness will turn into a form of bullying. That's a classic dark triad form of behavior, and we see…”
May 21, 2024
Brooks: Happiness is not a feeling but consists of enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning
“Happiness, which is not a feeling. Very important because emotional self-management is critical to living a good life. And if you're just hoping for happy feelings, this is not going to lead you to emotional self-management. So, so we start off with a proper d…”
Feb 26, 2025
Brooks: Paraphrasing in fights is meant to calm your own limbic system
“When you're actually having an argument And your partner says something you don't like, you stop, you think about it, and then you say, is what you're trying to say, and then you paraphrase what your partner's just said, this has, all you've done is given your…”
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Workaholism is a secondary addiction that displaces human relationships
“When work takes over because it becomes such an obsession, something you're thinking about day and night, it can become really unhealthy because it starts to displace your love relationships. It becomes the relationship per se. So talking about work as a relat…”
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Work-life balance is nonsense and should be work-life integration
“Work-life balance is complete nonsense because it suggests that work is not part of your life. There's a separation between your work and your life. Your work should be part of your life. That should be work-life integration.”
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Brooks: Money increases well-being for the poor by reducing unhappiness
“There are ways to buy happiness. Now to begin with, more money early on, and there's a bunch of studies on this that shows that when you have more money, when you're poor, then you, your wellbeing does rise. And the reason is not because of happiness. It's bec…”
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Brooks: Happiness and unhappiness are processed in different brain hemispheres
“Happiness and unhappiness are not opposites. They're largely governed in different hemispheres of the brain, as a matter of fact. So to say, if I got rid of the screens and had fewer aggravations and mood disorders, I would be happier. That's wrong. You'd be l…”
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Brooks: Negative emotions are essential biological defense mechanisms for survival and growth
“We have negative emotions because they keep us safe and alive. Fear, anger, disgust, and sadness. These are defense mechanisms. They're signals that something is not right around us, which is why we have negative emotions. And so they're very, very important f…”
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Comparing Happiness Across Different Countries Is Empirically Invalid
“You can compare people in countries over time. That's legit. I do that all the time. If we're looking at happiness trends inside populations, you can look at individuals all day long, but I don't compare countries. I don't think it's a, I don't think it's a le…”
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Mood disorders and screen overuse are the top driver of unhappiness
“One of the greatest sources of unhappiness is mood disorder, meaning generalized anxiety and clinical depression. This is a hugely important problem, especially for people under 35 today. We've all heard about the explosion of mood disorders, especially since …”
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Brooks: Reading Online Hostility Triggers Adrenaline Release Within 74 Milliseconds
“So what happens is that you see something, it stimulates your optic nerve, is processed for what you're reading online with the, in the occipital lobe of your brain, sending a signal to your amygdala, which is the fear and anger, part of the limbic system of t…”
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Evolutionary Mismatch Makes Online Hostility Trigger Physical Threat Responses
“This is a mismatch between our biological, our evolutionary environment and our technological environment. We were not built for Twitter. We were built for the Savannah, and our body still acts as if it were, and so all of these threats, the only way you can c…”
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Therapy based on quick hacks does not deliver lasting results
“The more that you're learning about yourself from therapy, the more likely it is to have a beneficial impact for the long term. When somebody just wants to solve your problems, Or give you hacks. Run the other way. That's just not very helpful. And it's certai…”
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Brooks: Oprah is one of few public figures unchanged in private
“Oprah Winfrey is one of them, by the way. She's one of the only people I've met in all of my work, and I deal with a lot of people who are very much in the public eye, who is exactly the same person in public as she is in private. Exactly. So when we're on tou…”
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Brooks: Negative emotions trigger involuntary twitches on the left side of the face
“Watch the left side of people's faces when you're talking to them, and they will not be able to involuntarily control the activity. Slight twitches, a little bit more left face activity when they're experiencing negative emotions when you're talking to them.”
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Brooks: Four uses of money bring happiness; buying material goods fails
“So there's five things you can do with money. Okay. This is a very much a Cody Sanchez part of the conversation, isn't it? Number one, you can buy stuff, right? We've already talked about that. Number two, you can buy experiences. Number three, you can buy tim…”