The Jamie Kern Lima ShowThe Meaning of Your Life with Arthur Brooks: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness

The Striver’s Curse Explained

47:37–48:53 · 76s

Brooks describes how early praise wires achievers to earn love through success, fueling workaholism and 'never enough'—and reminds that love can’t be earned.

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