Arthur Brooks

Confession.

Vacation is hard for me.

I work a lot.

If I were left to my devices, I would work all the time.

And so maybe you, like me, find taking a vacation a hard thing to do and relaxing, pulling away from your generative work a hard thing to do.

I'd like to tell you that the perfect vacation will make you permanently happy or at least happy for the rest of the year.

But it doesn't because that's not the way that your limbic system works.

Today's episode is about how you can have a happier vacation.

Really what it's about is how you can be happier as a person by taking the right kind of vacation and not the wrong kind of vacation, which many people do, and also how you can be happier while you're on vacation.

I'm going to try to give you the criteria for building vacation that actually suits you the best as well as the people that you love.

Hey friends, welcome to Office Hours.

I'm Arthur Brooks.

This is a show about lifting people up and bringing them together in bonds of happiness and love using science and ideas.

That's my mission as a social scientist is to do that.

But I need you with me.

If you're trying to make the world a better place with more love and happiness, I hope this has been helpful to you, this show.

And if it is, please do share the show with other people.

We're building a pretty big following of people who share these values.

And I like that we can be part of that.

I think that we can make a better world with these ideas.