Happiness and the Culture of Contempt with Arthur Brooks

Today’s episode of the podcast features a conversation between John Papola and his good friend Arthur Brooks. Arthur, an author and social scientist, was formerly the president of the American Enterprise Institute. He is now a professor at Harvard. Arthur Brooks was also the subject and star of Papola’s feature documentary, The Pursuit. John and Arthur discuss Brooks’ research on happiness, with a specific focus on how to be happy later in your life. They also talk about other expertise of Arthur’s, such as how to avoid a culture of contempt and how your intelligence changes as you age. More from our guest: Website Wikipedia Page Twitter Amazon Author Page References from this episode: Incerto by Nassim Taleb Gross National Happiness by Arthur Brooks Flow by Mhaly Csikszentmihalyi Love Your Enemies by Arthur Brooks The Arthur Brooks Show (podcast) The Pursuit (film)