Happiness expert, Harvard Professor & author Arthur Brooks joins Neal Brennan to discuss why happiness is ~50% genetic, why men and women fundamentally need different things from love (adoration vs. admiration), the dark triad/tetrad in dating apps, why “success addiction” ruins marriages, the psychology of comedy, the power of the “Reverse Bucket List,” why you need to be bored, how SSRIs affect creativity, Mass vs. Doomscrolling, why your personality keeps improving with age, and why suffering isn’t the same thing as pain.

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00:00 Intro

3:21 Is Happiness Genetic?

5:05 Male vs. Female Emotion

10:20 Adoration vs. Admiration: What Men and Women Really need

15:20 The Dark Tetrad: Society’s Most Dangerous People

19:38 Addiction to Being Adored

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35:16 Addiction to Adoration

39:58 Building Protocols to Protect Marriage

44:19 The Happiness Scale

56:45 Going to Mass instead of scrolling

59:34 Why You Need to Be Bored

1:00:56 The Pill, SSRIs & Creativity

1:08:22 Happiness & Aging

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1:21:15 The Psychology of Comedy

1:23:45 The Reverse Bucket List

1:31:25 Psychedelics & Prayer

1:36:18 Suffering

1:43:50 Love & Marriage

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Edited by Will Hagle (wthagle@gmail.com)

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