Arthur Brooks
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2 days ago |
theatlantic.com | Arthur Brooks
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. My preoccupation with writing about meaning, love, and happiness derives from my desire to understand these parts of life more deeply, and impart to others whatever understanding I can glean. I will confess that this can be a frustrating task at times because I feel as though I can never get to the essence of these sublimities; words always feel inadequate.
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sueddeutsche.de | Arthur Brooks
Know thyself is the most famous maxim of Greek philosophy, carved into stone on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Why? you might ask. The greatest philosophers and writers throughout history are more likely to tell you why not, so foundational is the idea of self-knowledge to a meaningful existence.
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theatlantic.com | Arthur Brooks
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Confounding the prognostication of oddsmakers and Vatican watchers everywhere, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV on May 8, becoming the first pope in history from the United States. The new Holy Father served for many years as a missionary in South America and is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Peru.
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internazionale.it | Arthur Brooks
V iviamo in un’epoca di ego rumorosi. A partire dalla fine degli anni settanta gli studiosi hanno rilevato un aumento delle persone con una personalità narcisistica, soprattutto tra i giovani adulti. I social hanno amplificato questo tratto, al punto che oggi abbiamo un’intera classe culturale di persone che definiamo “influencer” e che si dedicano a mandare in onda se stesse attraverso le nuove tecnologie.
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theatlantic.com | Arthur Brooks
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest and Franciscan friar who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 for hiding Jews and publishing anti-Nazi tracts, then sent to Auschwitz. He might have survived the camp and the war had he looked out for himself. Instead, he volunteered to take the place of a man randomly selected to be starved to death in retribution for another prisoner’s escape.
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Gratitude reliably increases happiness. It's one of the most undisputed findings in the social science literature on happiness. The trick is to develop ways to be a more grateful person—that is, to recognize goodness and affirm it in a systematic way. To do so is not natural to
