clarifying insights that have emerged from the mountains of evidence that our friend arthur books -- arthur brookshas amassed and mastered and is spreading across the land. arthur, your joy and exuberance over the past two days i love. they are really infectious. they do so much for having us here. [applause] -- thank you so much for having us here. [applause] one of the things i have learned from studying arthur brooks' writing is that women are happier than men. [laughter] so i am very glad to be here on this stage as the lone representative of the happiest sex. [laughter] [laughter] [applause] i have come in the spirit of warmhearted inquiry. ofave come in the spirit warmhearted inquiry that i sewed meyer in your holiness and have so relished in my encounters with you. joining the board of mind and life a few years ago, it has privilege.rmous those encountered have demonstrated the power of a particular form of dialogue. i think we are beginning to nibble at its edges here. a dialogue in which all are invited to come prepared to learn and potentially to be changed. by respectful engagement with

arthur brooks has talked about the four of them that i think are wonderful, and the four that arthur rooks does our faith, family, community and work, all of which i think there is substantial empirical evidence to show in fact they do play a role in fostering our well-being. and for the research, the modern research literature, there are two particular factors that i would like to highlight. they are more granular if you will. they all can be affected by the four factors that arthur brooks described. but they are generosityand conscientiousness. generosity and conscientiousne conscientiousness. both of these turn out to be very important in the fostering of well-being is. and actually, his holiness has written about the secular ethics in several books, and his holiness talks about the ethics of free strength and virtue and compassion, and i think that the conscientiousness is being impacted by the ethics of restraint and generosity being impact by the virtue and compassion. so there's an interesting parallel between the frameworks into the conceptions we are coming up within modern s

arthur brooks is the president of the american enterprise institute. and arthur wrote a book on the road to freedom a couple of years ago, and he gave a lecture on happiness that greatly influenced me. i attended it with one of my two wonderful sons. and he turned to me, a 21-year-old, and said that's the best thing i've ever heard. i told arthur that, he lit up. it was a lecture on happiness and about what you'll end up evaluating your life by. and that actually inspired me to start writing this, and i started with dennis prager's book, "happiness is a serious problem." dennis wrote that book 15 years ago, it's still in print. so my goal is to get prager and brooks and myself out on a happiness tour and to see if we can't bring a little joy as opposed to political grimness. i also was move today write this book, which is not a political book. i've written 15 books, a dozen of which have been on politics, two on my christian faith and one on happiness. i may rest a while. 2012 was a grim result for me -- perhaps for many of you. i was deeply invested e

from all of those who have written about it before, but in particular, from aristotle, dennis and arthur brooks. arthur rhodes a book on the road to freedom a couple of years ago and he gave a lecture and happiness that greatly influenced me. i attended it with my two wonderful sons. he turned to me and said that's the best thing i've ever heard. they told arthur that and he let out. it was a lecture on happiness and what you will end up evaluating your life by. that inspired to start readiness. i started with dennis prager's book, happiness is a serious problem. he wrote that the 15 years ago. it's still in print. the goal is to get prager and brooks at myself in a happiness to her and see if we can't bring a little joy as opposed to political progress. i also was moved to write this book, which is not a political boat. i've written a dozen books on politics, to about my christian faith in one of the happiness. i may rest a while, but i was inspired by the fact 2012 is it her resolve for me, for many of you. is deeply invested emotionally and professionally in the success of the romney camp an

moved to the library of congress where they are perhaps enjoying the tones of their guest star, arthur brookscently prescribed a formula for happiness. quote, free enterprise gives the most people the best shot at earning their success and finding enduring happiness in their work. pocketbook issues are said to be the gop's focus today, but despite the cbo's latest report that immigration reform would boost economic growth, do not expect that to be foremost on their agenda or anywhere on the agenda. >> i think we have a sort of an unresolvable conflict here. the house says it won't go to the senate on a comprehensive. >> joining me now, making his return to this television show is the managing editor of "the washington post" and john stanton. you're both triumph victors and we're very happy to have you on the show. chris, the conflict, they might as well just rename the grand ole party, the party of unresolvable conflict. in the long term, the mo -- mit mcconnell's declaration is that immigration reform is an unresolvable conflict. i tend to agree with frank rich on this. it sounds like it is

we have arthur brooks from the american enterprise institute. i want to start with you here, nick.the foreign-policy impact beyond spiritual consciousness of a meeting like this? >> this is actually the third time that president obama has met with the dollar, -- dalai lama. the chinese have protested. there is no incentive to destabilize the relationship with the u.s. in any way. the relationship is actually improving right now. i think we will continue, regardless of the meeting. >> did you get any insight as to wishes toalai lama achieve from the meeting? >> i have no idea. i think the president's meeting was set up after our collaboration with the dalai lam a many, many months ago. given that his holiness was an washington, d.c., it was only appropriate that the resident would invite him over. i agree that it will not make any damage to the u.s.-china relationship at all. >> anybody would want to hang out with the dalai lama. wouldn't you, jules? wouldn't you, if you could get a chance? >> sure, particularly if he could carry my clubs. [laughter] >> is there anything to lighten

it is incredible to be here with the spiritual leader of the capitalist people, arthur brooks. [laughter] i am not sure my dad would be quite so proud of that -- [laughter] so i started my fund in 1995 with $3 million under management . it has grown a bit over the years. i started in june of that year, and started practicing yoga a few months before that. my yoga teacher is here in the background. about five months after starting other peoples money under my management, my yoga teacher convinced me to go to india to study yoga with a a month.r it was an unusual decision. i got a call from one of my friends, a competitor in the business, who said do not do that, that is a huge mistake. people with think you are a flick for leaving your business, india, study yoga for a month, and mind you there were no internet connections then myself and services was nonexistent. well-founded.ere i went anyway. i had a great month there. it launched me into a lifelong passion for spirituality, for and iplation, meditation, just want to say that contemplate mission -- cut ablation and meditation

dedication at the end of such a practice common an, and perhapss dialogue we could also be grateful to arthur brooks and his staff are generously hosting to the sponsors that supported it and to you, your holiness to the courage and inspiration to all communities as a marxist to join us here to learn something about capitalism, to critique the practice dialogue with respect and a good hard. let me invite you appear to close the session. [applause] >> thanks to all of you. one person we haven't had a chance to show gratitude is author james. [applause] we have reached the end of the session and the dalai lama is off to bless others today. as we close the session please take a moment and to stay seated as he leaves the stage. and i do want to reenter eight-foot arthur just said to you -- re- iterate what arthur said to you. we learned from his holiness the dalai lama and our new colleagues from the mind and life in two to consider ideas with an open mind and a warm heart is a virtue and a blessing to all of us. it's important because we have learned the secrets of happiness. the secret of happiness li

is incredible to be with the spiritual leader of the capitalists people, arthur brooks. [laughter] and i'm not sure my dad would be quite so proud of that. [laughter] he would certainly be happy. i start my fun in 1995 with $3 million under management. is going a bit over the years, but i started it in june of that year, and started practicing yoga a few months before that. in fact, my yoga teacher is here in the back of the room. and about five months after starting my business, fiduciary, i do the people's money under management, my yoga teacher convinced me to go to india to study yoga with the master for a month. it was unusual decision. in fact, i got a call from one of my friends, a competitor in the businesses that don't do that. that's a huge mistake. everyone will think you're a flight for leaving your business, going to india, studying yoga for a month. and mind you, there were no internet connections then, cell phone service was not existent. but the concerns are well-founded. so i went anyway. i had a great month and it really launched me into really a lifelo

it's not about how -- arthur brooks, god all mighty. it would be hard for me to wish he was back. but you're making me wish that -- >> berkin was here. >> no i listened. happy birthday. you know what was weird? you know my dog, zarah? it was her birthday yesterday. >> you're kidding. >> no. we had a big party. it's german for something. >> zarah? >> yeah. >> the shepherd, right? >> yeah. anyway, facebook has announced the acquisition of whatsapp. y yes, the messaging start-up whatsapp -- >> what's up? >> on news line is bob tech, internet analyst. we haven't talked about -- even done the story and had our comments yet, bob. i don't even know if we need you because i have a lot to say about this. no, here is the thing. in the internet days we were trading 100,000 capses for two auto 50,000 dogs. this is a lot of stock. is it inflated stocks and therefore not a real number we're using with 16 billion or 19 billion or is that real money? >> first of all, thanks for having me. you know, i think we take a step back and just think about massive network effects of this size of scale and