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Podcast: Modern Wisdom

Episode: Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness - Arthur Brooks

Published on April 21, 2025

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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From Strength to Strength

by Arthur C. Brooks

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So I wrote a book on this called from strength to strength about how people and they go through the course of their careers and they find that their interests change...

Arthur Brooks mentions a book he wrote called "from strength to strength".

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Phillips Brooks

by Arthur Brooks

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I have a book every two or three years that comes out, a new one that's coming out in a year called The Meaning of Your Life. How to find deep purpose in an age of emptiness.

Arthur Brooks announces a new book coming out in a year, stating its title and subtitle.

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The Evolution of Desire

by David M. Buss

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Uh this guy reached out to him after he read the evolution of desire and in it David talks about uh an area of the brain that specifically gets turned on in men.

Chris Williamson mentions a book called "the evolution of desire" by David Buss, which someone read and reached out to Buss about.

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The Moral Animal

by Robert Wright

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Uh cuz the the book that got me into uh EP was um The Moral Animal from 1991 or 1992 or something.

Chris Williamson mentions "The Moral Animal" as the book that introduced him to evolutionary psychology.

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Why Buddhism is True

by Robert Wright

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There's this gorgeous idea from uh Robert Wright's Why Buddhism is True. That's a nice book.

Arthur Brooks mentions a book by Robert Wright called "Why Buddhism is True" and calls it a nice book.

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