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1 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
“By the way, this is one of the reasons I’m such an enthusiast for the free enterprise system, because it allows us to find the places where our skills and our talents can actually find each other.”
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- 1 Apr 2026
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…Only the fourth of those applies to Elon Musk, and he’s our most successful CEO ever? Yes. I think that you’re doing something where you’re serving others and earning your success every day, Tyler, and I believe I am as well. I believe that my postman is, and I believe that my plumber is. That’s really important. By the way, this is one of the reasons I’m such an enthusiast for the free enterprise system, because it allows us to find the places where our skills and our talents can actually find each other. It’s the ultimate ikigai way of organizing an economy. What’s the deepest theory you have as to why younger people so often reject happiness advice, even when it comes from happy people?…
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