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Arthur C. Brooks

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“My dad believed not that what we know is what we should pay attention to, but to marvel at what we can do and still not know anything. So my father would explain, had a big impact on me, that there's two kinds of problems in life. There's complicated problems and there's complex problems. It's a mathematical difference, but the technique doesn't matter. Complicated problems are all the things that you can solve with computational horsepower and tech. Complex problems are super easy to understand, but you can never solve them. Like, who's going to win between the Patriots and the Dolphins? I know what winning looks like. It's more points on the scoreboard, but I have no idea, and that's why it's beautiful to watch the game and you don't want to simulate it on the computer because it'll be inaccurate. Love is complex. A jet engine is complicated. A cat is complex. A toaster is complicated. And he said two kinds of problems. And he said, as a basic math problem,”
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“I know. So eat my macaroni cheese. And they always say something like. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that evidence of God?”
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“Math problems to us. He would say, Okay, okay, boys. Me and my brother imagine all of the integers between 1 and 100, 1, 2, 3, 4. Okay. Atom all together, what's the result? And we're like, I don't know. I need a piece of paper. He said, no, you don't. Think in another way. Think of another way. The solution, by the way, is one plus 100 equals 101 and 2 plus 99 equals 101 and 3 plus 98 equals 101. And there are 51 of those, which makes 51 combinations of 101. 5050. That's what we would do. That's what my father would do.”
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“My dad was a mathematician. He had a PhD in biostatistics. He was a lifelong college professor. Most of it at a small Christian college in Seattle called Seattle Pacific University. He was born to missionary parents, evangelical missionary parents. He was born in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, where my grandfather ran a mission school, actually. And then my grandfather went on to become the dean of a very famous college outside Chicago called Wheaton College, where all our family members had gone. My aunt went there in the 40s and dated Billy Graham in college, as it turns out. Yeah, yeah. And then my dad, you know, went on to another Christian college, to the college where he ultimately taught. And he was just absolutely in love with the beauty of mathematics. As kids, you know, my mother was an artist. My mother was a painter. My dad was a mathematician. Around that dinner table, we would talk about art and we would talk about math. Those are the things my father would publish.”
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“I got rejected from Harvard. McKinsey different. I actually applied to Harvard for graduate school and they're like, no, it took two weeks for them to reject my part of it is at the time I was 31. I was a college dropout. I had a degree from a correspondent school. I was a French horn player. These are not the core demographics of your typical Harvard graduate student. And so, yeah, I got rejected, which suggests, by the way, Tim, that our standards for faculty today are lower than for our students.”
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“And the point is a lot of people watching us, some are traditionally religious and some are spiritual and some are not. But the whole point is we have a sense that there's something else. We have a sense that there's something deeper. Let something in your life take you to the deeper place. Something needs to take you by the hand to the deeper place. There's a lot of research that suggests this is the case. Don't try to go to the deeper place to find it randomly on your own. Let someone take you. Now, that insight is ambiguous. But once people start to say, I'm ready to be taken to a deeper place, a more transcendent state, that person, that entity will appear.”
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“Zero zero. No, I grew up in a Christian family, so I had a little bit of wiring, but I literally knew no Catholics. It's just this thing. Okay. And my parents are like, adolescent rebellion. I guess it's better than drugs.”
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“People can disagree, but I couldn't get the image out of my head. I couldn't. And I realized I needed more in my life. I needed a deeper sense of the metaphysical in my life. I needed the transcendent in my life. And every time I thought of it, I thought of that image. And so I became a Catholic. At 16 years old, and I've been a Catholic man ever since.”
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“Culturally transgressive, that would have been. The Blessed Virgin Mary is not white. What are you talking about? No, no, no. She's us. She's us. She's every person in the world. She loves you. She loves me. And she's one of us because she's in all of us. And that was this weird message that nobody really would have thought of at the time, or so Laura goes. And that's why people started saying, ah, oh, this actually is for me because she actually looks like me crazy. So I'm in this church in Mexico City, the shrine of Guadalupe. And, you know, I'm looking at the Tilma. I was just sitting up there and I'm thinking, this is boring. But then I noticed she was looking at me. Now, to be sure, I didn't realize that you can look at Elvis on velvet and the eyes will follow you. Right. Okay. Fair's fair. But I couldn't get it out of my head. I couldn't get it out of my head. So worldly or divine or mystical or not reasonable.”
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“Textile, it's sort of a poncho. It's the tilma is what they would wear. And it was based on a fabric made out of cactus. It's beautiful imprint in color. We've all seen the picture of almost everybody's seen the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe on this. And if you Google it, the version of Guadalupe and you see you say, oh, I've seen that a million times because it's in every Latino church. For the Catholic Church, she's the patroness of all the Americas, including the United States. I mean, this is a big deal for the church. So the bishop sees it. They take the Tilma. They display the Tilma in public. And for the first time, they start getting converts. In the next nine years, 7 million people convert to the Catholic Church. Now, why? There's worldly explanation and there's divine explanations for it. Here's a worldly explanation that's pretty compelling. Our Lady of Guadalupe is not white. She's not Spanish. She's a mestiza. She's a woman of mixed race. Now, we don't realize today how incredibly subversive that is, how unbelievable.”
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“What happens then is this weirdly miraculous thing for Catholics and fellow travelers. I mean, just it was a mystical experience. So there was a peasant man by the name of Juan Diego who's on a hill outside of Mexico City and sees an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. So he, on his poncho, is imprinted the Blessed Virgin Mary's image on his Tilma. He takes it back.”
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“We're too late. And when I was 15 years old, I was on this trip with a group, with a not a professional, it was like an amateur concert band, but, you know, doing a tour through Mexico. And we were doing a lot of tourism. And one of the tourist activities was to go to the shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Now, this is a famous place for Catholics because it's one of the great pilgrimage sites of the world in Catholic teaching. This is where when the Spanish explorers came to Mexico and having a horrible time because their marketing was all goofed up for the Catholic Church, I mean, convert or die is not a very compelling pitch, it turns out, you know, and racist and, you know, everything that you possibly could want.”
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“Yeah, I was a French horn player, a classical French horn player all the way through my 20s. I didn't go to college until I was 30. It was my gap decade. And when I was.”
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“As a teenager in Mexico. Oh, yeah. The Mexican. It was not out in the woods with Shaman in ayahuasca. When I was 15, I was on a band trip. I used to be a musician, and I started as a kid. I was a real serious musician. And I wound up being a professional musician from when I was 19 until I was 31.”
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“I don't actually remember the brand, but they're actually they use Velcro. And there are about two inches thick, so two thick and actually can't get the kind of occlusion that I really want. So experiment with what works with the size and shape of your biceps and triceps and then learn how to use them and then make them tighter and then get in touch with the pain.”
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“So occlusion training, what it effectively does is it's not a tourniquet, but what it is, it's a band around your arms and or legs so that when you're lifting, you actually will get a much greater, as, you know, in the vernacular, the burn from resistance training with lower weight. Now the reason I recommend this very strongly is because the research suggests that it's very good for both strength and hypertrophy at lower weight levels so it saves your joints but gives you results and that's what you need to do when you're over 40. Save the joints”
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“Because praying together is just too intimate. They don't know how to do it. It's embarrassing to them. Imagine you'll get naked in front of somebody else, but you won't pray in front of them. And that's because it's such a deeply intimate thing. Okay. So when you cross the boundary of the greatest intimacy with another person, there's going to be some transmission. The idea of direct transmission rings true to me because of the nature and intensity, the intimacy that comes from that experience.”
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“I don't know the answer to that. I do know that you can deeply be in communion with somebody really intimately. And my wife, Esther, and I, we actually, we teach young couples that are engaged about. She teaches the theological part. I teach the social science because I'm just a, you know, I'm a total wonk. And what we do tell them is that according to the best science and our experience and common sense, that one of the most intimate things that you can do with your partner or spouse is pray together. It's super intimate. I know couples that have been married for 25 years that will have sex together but won't pray together because it's too embarrassing to pray together.”
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“And I noticed that I was having a hard time focusing. I was having a hard time understanding what I was trying to do for myself, for this offering. I didn't know how to make it fruitful in its way. I didn't exactly know what the point was. And studying the work of Tikhnat Han and also studying at the Dalai Lama's monastery in Dharamsala, India, sitting in meditation and studying meditation techniques with the Tibetan Buddhist monks, I actually learned what I was supposed to be doing as a Catholic praying my rosary, how I actually could center my prayer and make it deeply worshipful in a meaningful way. And perhaps God wanted me to learn that from my Buddhist sisters and brothers.”
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“And the Dalai Lama, too, by the way. I mean, a lot of Buddhist thinking has been incredibly helpful to me to understand exactly what I'm trying to do as a person when I'm centering myself in prayer. So, for example, Catholics, traditional Catholics, they generally pray what's called the Rosary. And the Rosary is a set of beads that you pray repetitive prayers. It's about a thousand-year-old Catholic meditation. I do it every day.”
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“Exactly as well. And then what you're doing is while you're doing this, you're planning for a future existence that's better than now and when you reach it, it will be a phantasm as well. It will be nothing more than a mythical past while you're thinking about a new future that doesn't quite exist and you've missed your whole life.”
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“He also was really behind the whole mindfulness revolution in the West. He starts off the miracle of mindfulness, that famous book, Big Bestseller, with this simple description of washing the dishes. And he says, when you're washing the dishes, you should be thinking about washing the dishes because if you don't think about washing the dishes, you're not really there washing the dishes, are you? And he persuades you with this kind of hypnotic prose to remember that if you don't think about washing the dishes, but you're thinking about doing something at work tomorrow or you're thinking about something that happened yesterday, that you're living the future of the past and you've missed your life.”
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“And that was most meaningful to them in the same way. Now, I didn't know Tikhnot Han. I've worked very closely with the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but the Theravada Buddhist tradition I've never penetrated personally. And so I didn't know Tikhnat Han. But I do know the things that he said and taught that really changed the way that Westerners think. And so that's what I wanted to talk about. Not what did he do that changed Theravada Buddhism? I'm not a Theravada Buddhist. I'm not equipped to write that. But I can talk about the way he changed me as a Catholic. I can talk about how he changed me as a public policy person because I was reading Tech Nat Han when I was running a think tank in Washington, D.C., how he influenced me as a happiness professor at Harvard. That's the stuff that I really wanted to focus on. That was the idea of attachment and detachment. That was the idea of the illusion of individuality. I mean, these are concepts that people didn't think about.”
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“The Germans talk about doing something called a fest shrift. It's a word that means kind of this encomium. It's a celebration of the work of somebody. And which I will start when you do one of these things. It's typical sort of European intellectual deal is you look at the things that they said and did that had the most impact.”
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“Yeah, it was on my reverse bucket list when I turned 59. And I said, look, it's not that I don't have these views. I just don't have the attachment to these views. Look, man, I need more friends and strong political opinions is not going to get me there. It's not going to get me there. Love is going to get me there. Tolerance is going to get me there. A sense of curiosity about other people is going to get me there and strong political opinions is going to put me in the wrong direction. So man, dead. The attachment dead.”
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“Tikhnat Hans said, and it always had an impact on me, but I reflected on it upon his death that one of the greatest attachments that people have in modern life is to their views and opinions. That's a real attachment. It can be as dangerous as your attachment to money or power. Why? Because people treat their opinions as if they were gold, their jewels, you know, get between me and my political opinions, man. I'll cancel you. I'll get you fired. I'll denounce you on social media. Who knows? Maybe I'll be violent. I mean, life is crazy these days. And so I looked at it and I thought, am I weighed down by attachment to my views, to my political views? So I wrote down five of my strongest political views, and I crossed them out.”
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“But if you're super attached to it, then you're going to freak out when something throws you off. And furthermore, you're not going to recognize the fact that it is the voyage itself that is the adventure of life, not actually reaching the particular destination, whether it's the original one or one that turns out to be better or worse or wherever you wind up. And that's the way you got to live your life. So it's intention without attachment. Now, there's another thing that I was thinking about this year because Tikhnot Han died. You know, the great Vietnamese Buddhist monk. And I wrote his obituary in the Washington Post, actually. It was a really interesting experience because I talked about all what he's taught, all of us.”
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“It's nothing more than an intention. Intention is fine, but attachment is bad. And this is what the Dalai Lama talks about too. He talks about intention without attachment. There's a word in sailing, the rum line, in Spanish rumbo, which is a lot more common in normal everyday speech. And what it means is it's the intention of your voyage. You have to have that, even though you know you're not going to be true to it. Because if you don't know, you're just going to be going in circles. You'll just be like, I don't know. I've been out to sea for a long time. Who knows where I am? You know, it'll be like one of your vacations. It's like, I don't know where I am. I'm just like doing nothing, man. And it can be therapeutically important, but it's actually not the way that you get from Europe to the Americas.”
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“Am I practicing the detachment that I committed myself to? And the truth is, usually, yeah, kind of. I mean, the phantasm will be back. It will be flying around in your head again. But you brought it to your prefrontal cortex for a reason. And your prefrontal cortex is an adult and will govern the children. But sometimes you have to remind yourself, remember, look, I mean, you're an adult here. And you look back on it and you say, and it's funny. Actually, it's pretty amusing when you look at it and you say, oh, I can't believe that thing is bugging me again. But you're not governed by it in the same way. You know what I actually put on my list? I was reading.”
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“I keep the list and I go back and I look at the list just like I would look at my bucket list later every six months or every year every 10 years whatever happened to be I go back and look at my reverse bucket list and say am I living up to this am I truly conscious”
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“It does not because you don't care about it, but because you're not attached to it in the same way. You've made the decision to have it not be a rootless desire, a ghost in your head. You've made it into something that you will consciously manage by literally experiencing that ambition in a different part of your brain.”
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“Limbic system managing me. I want to move the experience of these ambitions to my prefrontal cortex, which is my executive manager, the bumper of tissue right behind my forehead. And the way that you do that is by looking at each one of these ambitions and saying, maybe I get it and maybe I don't. But I'm going to cross it out as an attachment. And I'm telling you, Tim, I'm free.”
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“Or permanently and securely by wanting less. I thought to myself, what does that mean? And the answer to that, what does that mean is I need a reverse bucket list. Not that I'm not going to get nice things in my life, but I'm going to be consciously detached from them by going through the exercise of writing them down and crossing them out. So on my birthday now, my 59th birthday, a couple of months ago, I wrote down all my ridiculous ambitions and desires of money or whatever power, ambition, admiration, all these things that I want from other people that we all want because we're human and Mother Nature wires us to accumulate the rewards that'll help us survive and pass on our genes. I get it. I know how evolutionary psychology works. And I know that these things are going to occur to me as natural goals. But I do not want to be owned by them. I want to manage them. I don't want them to be like phantasms in my life.”
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“50 than I was at 40. And so I thought I'm a social scientist. So I thought to myself, obviously, I'm doing something wrong. What am I doing wrong? And basically, this is the problem. This is a neurophysiological problem and a psychological problem all rolled into one handy package. I was making the mistake of thinking that my satisfaction would come by having more. And the truth of the matter is that lasting and stable satisfaction, which doesn't wear off and like a minute, comes when you understand that your satisfaction is your haves divided by your wants haves divided by wants. That's the model. So, you know, it's like I'll slow down because I know people watching like, let me write that down. Haves divided by wants. You can increase your satisfaction temporarily and inefficiently by having more.”
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“Reverse bucket list is something I do. Oh boy, do I ever do it? And it took me too long to figure this one out. When I was 50, I'm 59 years old. When I was 50, I found my bucket list from when I was 40. Now, it was a classic thing. My birthday, I would make a list of my desires and my ambitions, and I would kind of imagine myself visualize myself, consuming or experiencing these things. And it would fire me up and make me, well, kind of feel like a loser, quite frankly, because it was lowering my sense of satisfaction, I subsequently found out. And I looked at that list for when I was 40. And I checked everything off that list and I was less happy.”
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“I feel like we've been looking forward to meeting and we've been warming up for this for a long time with so many friends in common.”
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