Arthur Brooks

I want to introduce you to a way to think about something that's incredibly inevitable.

I mean, totally inevitable.

We all will experience grief because sadness is part of life.

And sadness based on loss, which is grief, of course, is something that we don't have to go looking for in point of fact will find us.

Grief is losing something or someone that you love.

We typically think about it as because our loved one's dying, but it could be your company goes bankrupt.

It could be being fired from your job.

These could be real sources of grief.

And it can be little or big, as a matter of fact.

It's the loss, the involuntary loss of something you cherish.

Now, why am I talking about it?

Because when we talk about it, the research can give us a tremendous amount of value in understanding what it is, why it happens,

how it's normal and how to deal with it.

And that's my goal here.

Hi friends, welcome to Office Hours.

I'm Arthur Brooks.

I'm dedicated to lifting people up and bringing them together in bonds of happiness and love using science and ideas.

I'm a behavioral scientist and that's what I get to do all day.

That's what the show is all about.

That's what I write about and teach about as well.