Arthur Brooks

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.

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.

Before I was doing this, teaching at Harvard, and I teach a large seminar at the Harvard Business School called Leadership and Happiness that has 180 students, something like 450 on the waiting list and illegal Zoom link they think I'm not aware of. And before I was doing that, which is...

Before I was doing this, teaching at Harvard, and I teach a large seminar at the Harvard Business School called Leadership and Happiness that has 180 students, something like 450 on the waiting list and illegal Zoom link they think I'm not aware of. And before I was doing that, which is...

Before I was doing this, teaching at Harvard, and I teach a large seminar at the Harvard Business School called Leadership and Happiness that has 180 students, something like 450 on the waiting list and illegal Zoom link they think I'm not aware of. And before I was doing that, which is...

fun um as an academic um i was actually the president of a think tank in washington dc i was the president of the american enterprise institute a free market oriented think tank which i was the chief executive of for 11 years before that i was a behavioral scientist at syracuse before that i was a professional french horn player right from when i was 19 until i was 31. i went to college by correspondence in my late 20s and early 30s

fun um as an academic um i was actually the president of a think tank in washington dc i was the president of the american enterprise institute a free market oriented think tank which i was the chief executive of for 11 years before that i was a behavioral scientist at syracuse before that i was a professional french horn player right from when i was 19 until i was 31. i went to college by correspondence in my late 20s and early 30s

fun um as an academic um i was actually the president of a think tank in washington dc i was the president of the american enterprise institute a free market oriented think tank which i was the chief executive of for 11 years before that i was a behavioral scientist at syracuse before that i was a professional french horn player right from when i was 19 until i was 31. i went to college by correspondence in my late 20s and early 30s

And then left music and went and got my PhD and became a behavioral scientist.

And then left music and went and got my PhD and became a behavioral scientist.

And then left music and went and got my PhD and became a behavioral scientist.

Public policy analysis. Public policy analysis. And my fields were applied microeconomics and mathematical modeling.

Public policy analysis. Public policy analysis. And my fields were applied microeconomics and mathematical modeling.

Public policy analysis. Public policy analysis. And my fields were applied microeconomics and mathematical modeling.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Yeah, I was mostly interested in human behavior as an economist. I got a great technical toolkit as an economist, but I'm not that interested in cheese markets in Bulgaria. What I'm really interested in is why people do the weird things that they do. Right, so motivation. Exactly right. And I was studying things that don't have typical economic rationale, like why do people give to charity?

Yeah, I was mostly interested in human behavior as an economist. I got a great technical toolkit as an economist, but I'm not that interested in cheese markets in Bulgaria. What I'm really interested in is why people do the weird things that they do. Right, so motivation. Exactly right. And I was studying things that don't have typical economic rationale, like why do people give to charity?

Yeah, I was mostly interested in human behavior as an economist. I got a great technical toolkit as an economist, but I'm not that interested in cheese markets in Bulgaria. What I'm really interested in is why people do the weird things that they do. Right, so motivation. Exactly right. And I was studying things that don't have typical economic rationale, like why do people give to charity?