Dr. Arthur Brooks

“People get religion all wrong, by the way. They think you have to, especially in the current generation, you have to feel something, and then you'll believe something, and then you'll practice something. That's exactly backwards when it comes to religion. Firs…”

“The first way to actually improve your life is to turn uncertainty into risk. Risk is where you can describe the possibilities, you can assign probabilities, and so you can manage contingencies.”

“Suffering equals your pain multiplied by the resistance to the pain.”

“Two-thirds of the guys Would prefer to shock themselves painfully. One guy shocked himself a 190 times in 15 minutes, had to be thrown out of the experiment for being a sick and twisted freak.”

“What all very successful, unhappy people have in common, is they will expend their happiness in search of specialness.”

“Marriage is the most important part of your startup. The most important thing that you do, that's your most important acquisition.”

“That's one of the reasons that the happiest marriage is one of the characteristics is that they, that the partners get more religious across the decades together. They get more religious together, right?”

“You need to apply that same entrepreneurial mindset that goes from uncertainty to risk to adventure in every part of your life. That's not just your business. That's not just opening laundromats or, you know, running vending machines, the kinds of businesses t…”