Arthur Brooks
5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2026 by Arthur Brooks · across every show →
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Mar 27, 2026
Mar 27, 2026
Brooks: Enjoyment Requires Combining Pleasure With Social Connection and Memory
“One is enjoyment, which is not pleasure. It's pleasure plus people plus memory. It's, you know, pleasure doesn't lead you to happiness, The pursuit of pleasure leads you to rehab, but when you actually add people and memory to it, you transfer the experience o…”
Mar 27, 2026 negative
Mar 27, 2026
Brooks: Boredom studies show most men choose electric shocks over sitting alone
“The Dan Gilbert, my colleague at Harvard, who's a visionary social psychologist, he's done boredom experiments, where he puts people in a room in a chair for 15 minutes with nothing to do and nothing to look at, nothing to listen to, and the only choice they h…”
Mar 27, 2026 neutral
Brooks: Every person is primarily distracted by one of four idols
“It turns out that the neuroscience and behavioral science that are my stock and trade follow these four idols. Everybody has one of these idols, as a matter of fact, that distracts them from the thing that's greater to themselves and will betray them, beguile …”