What Arthur C. Brooks has said about Happiness
3 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 11, 2026
Arthur C. Brooks, American social scientist, author and professor who teaches the science of happiness at Vanderbilt and Harvard Business School, has been quoted on Happiness 3 times in 1 episode of This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, most recently on November 11, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Brooks argues that happiness is not a feeling and that feelings are merely evidence of happiness.
“So scientifically, happiness isn't a feeling at all. Feelings are evidence of happiness”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #695 - Happiness Expert Dr. Arthur Brooks (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 7:10
Brooks defines enjoyment as pleasure combined with people and memory.
“is pleasure plus people plus memory equals enjoyment okay so it's got to be conscious and memorable”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #695 - Happiness Expert Dr. Arthur Brooks (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 9:23
Brooks argues modern therapeutic culture wrongly treats suffering as evidence of pathology.
“in the therapeutic industrial culture that we've got that says that if you're suffering from something, it's evidence that there's a pathology. That's wrong”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #695 - Happiness Expert Dr. Arthur Brooks (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 17:37
Episodes
#695 - Happiness Expert Dr. Arthur BrooksThis Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · Nov 11, 2026 · 1 h 46 min
Theo Von talks with social scientist Arthur Brooks about his book The Meaning of Your Life, the science of happiness, screen addiction, and finding meaning.
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