Modern Wisdom · 2025-04-21 · 122 min · 24,722 words

Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness - Arthur Brooks - #931

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I think if I if I was to give myself the three traits that I've managed to hold on to, I pay a lot of attention to detail. I have a unusual capacity for suffering, uh, or doing a delaying gratification might be an easy way to put it. Uh And I'm just consistent. And those three things seem to be like pretty fucking potent fuel no matter what industry you try and get into.

Yeah, but then of course there's the natural level of curiosity, high level of cognitive ability, right? I mean, th those are table stakes though, that's your point, right? You've got to have that to play the game. Yeah. Yeah.

Because otherwise you have that to play the game, but then when things are slow at the very beginning, that's when you stop your podcast. Right. And you didn't. A lot of a lot of questions come through from people who say stuff like, um Hey man, in the beginning, when you didn't have any plays or anything, like, you know, what motivated you to keep going?

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