#802 - Arthur Brooks - How To Stop Feeling Lost &amp; Find Your True Purpose

Susanna Hallonen

one of the best ways to do it, as you correctly point out, is to inject more newness of the ways that you do things in your life and to do that with…

And one way to think about that is to think about the art of success.

Thich Nhat Hanh, the great Vietnamese Buddhist monk, he wrote that our greatest attachments are to our opinions.

Guest: Arthur Brooks

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Arthur Brooks is a social scientist, professor at Harvard University, and an author. Chasing happiness appears to be the ultimate desire for many people, yet almost everyone struggles to understand what happiness actually is and how to achieve it. So if you speak to a specialist researcher, what does science say is the best way to actually cultivate happiness? Expect to learn what most people get wrong about happiness, the tension between a desire for success and a desire to feel like we’re enough, whether your drive for happiness is rooted in insecurity, if external accolades actually makes us happier, what the macronutrients of happiness are, the most common life elements that people believe will make them happy but actually don't and much more...

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one of the best ways to do it, as you correctly point out, is to inject more newness of the ways that you do things in your life and to do that with…

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And one way to think about that is to think about the art of success.

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