457: Arthur Brooks on What It Takes to Find Happiness

<p>Arthur Brooks is a bestselling author, social scientist, and the President of the American Enterprise Institute.&nbsp;He teaches Leadership and Happiness at the Harvard School of Business.</p><p>In this episode, Eric and Arthur discuss happiness as well as his book,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780062883759" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Love Your Enemies:&nbsp;How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt</a>.</p><p>But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed.&nbsp;<a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month.&nbsp;</a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!</p><p>Arthur Brooks and I Discuss What It Takes to Find Happiness and…</p><ul><li>His book,&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780062883759" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Love Your Enemies:&nbsp;How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt</a></li><li>The four extrinsic things that feed off fear are money, power, pleasure, and fame</li><li>The four intrinsic things that feed off love are faith, family, friendships, and meaningful work</li><li>How happiness requires meaning and having meaning requires challenge and/or difficulty</li><li>The three aspects of meaning are coherence, purpose, and significance</li><li>How writing out the thing you learned from a bad experience can bring meaning to it</li><li>Learning to find significance in the small things</li><li>How we need to stop living in the future and appreciate being in the present</li><li>The freeing idea that nobody really cares like we think they do</li><li>The more you judge others, the more you will feel judged</li><li>The therapy for feeling insecure is to stop judging and start observing</li><li>The link between humor and happiness</li><li>How we should r