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Professor, Vanderbilt University; Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School, Vanderbilt University
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The hidden cost of never being bored | Arthur Brooks: Full Interview

📅 Aug 07, 2026 Big Think and Dr. Arthur Brooks 113 MIN 303590 VIEWS 94 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
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Arthur Brooks 0:00 ↗
My name is Arthur Brooks. I'm a professor and a writer about the science of human happiness. My latest book is The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness. Today on Big Think, we're going to talk about three big things. Number one is the fact that people have been finding their lives less meaningful. The second is what should we do to live happier lives with more meaning? What are the strategies that we can all undertake? And last but not least, the issue of addiction, especially addiction to devices.
Narrator 0:33 ↗
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Brooks, A. (2026, August 7). The hidden cost of never being bored | Arthur Brooks: Full Interview [Interview transcript]. Big Think and Dr. Arthur Brooks. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3012482/

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Arthur Brooks. "The hidden cost of never being bored | Arthur Brooks: Full Interview." Big Think and Dr. Arthur Brooks, 7 Aug. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3012482/.

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  author       = {Arthur Brooks},
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  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Big Think and Dr. Arthur Brooks. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {aug},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3012482/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}