Arthur Brooks

Do you want to have progress in your life? Do you want to be a happier person? Do you want to have a life full of meaning?

There's another weird angle on this, though.

There's another weird angle on this, though.

There's another weird angle on this, though.

Gratitude is a divine thing. It's managing your affective, evolved state so it doesn't manage you.

Gratitude is a divine thing. It's managing your affective, evolved state so it doesn't manage you.

Gratitude is a divine thing. It's managing your affective, evolved state so it doesn't manage you.

Thanks. And thanks for having me on the program. It's a pleasure. I'm delighted. And I write about human happiness. I'm a behavioral scientist by background.

Thanks. And thanks for having me on the program. It's a pleasure. I'm delighted. And I write about human happiness. I'm a behavioral scientist by background.

Thanks. And thanks for having me on the program. It's a pleasure. I'm delighted. And I write about human happiness. I'm a behavioral scientist by background.

My PhD is largely, my work was dedicated to behavioral economics, but it moved much more toward the behavioral sciences and the psychological angle, and then later more toward neuroscience because everybody in the behavioral sciences now has to know a lot more neuroscience than they did when you and I were doing our PhDs.

My PhD is largely, my work was dedicated to behavioral economics, but it moved much more toward the behavioral sciences and the psychological angle, and then later more toward neuroscience because everybody in the behavioral sciences now has to know a lot more neuroscience than they did when you and I were doing our PhDs.

My PhD is largely, my work was dedicated to behavioral economics, but it moved much more toward the behavioral sciences and the psychological angle, and then later more toward neuroscience because everybody in the behavioral sciences now has to know a lot more neuroscience than they did when you and I were doing our PhDs.

just because we recognize that psychology is biology much more than we did in, I guess, the old days, in the 80s and 90s. I came late to what I'm doing right now, however. I've only been writing about human happiness in the way that I am for the past five and a half years. since I've been a professor at Harvard. I've written two big books since I came to Harvard.

just because we recognize that psychology is biology much more than we did in, I guess, the old days, in the 80s and 90s. I came late to what I'm doing right now, however. I've only been writing about human happiness in the way that I am for the past five and a half years. since I've been a professor at Harvard. I've written two big books since I came to Harvard.

just because we recognize that psychology is biology much more than we did in, I guess, the old days, in the 80s and 90s. I came late to what I'm doing right now, however. I've only been writing about human happiness in the way that I am for the past five and a half years. since I've been a professor at Harvard. I've written two big books since I came to Harvard.

One called From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life for strivers who are trying to understand the move from their fluid to crystallized intelligence and why they feel like they're burning out in the middle of their careers, how they can actually get stronger and better and happier as they get older.

One called From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life for strivers who are trying to understand the move from their fluid to crystallized intelligence and why they feel like they're burning out in the middle of their careers, how they can actually get stronger and better and happier as they get older.

One called From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life for strivers who are trying to understand the move from their fluid to crystallized intelligence and why they feel like they're burning out in the middle of their careers, how they can actually get stronger and better and happier as they get older.

And the second book I actually co-authored with Oprah Winfrey called Build the Life You Want, The Art and Science of Getting Happier, which is just the basic, straight-up science of human happiness that I wanted to introduce to large groups of people. And Oprah Winfrey, she hosted the book. much as she would have hosted somebody on her show when she had a talk show back in the old days.