Arthur C. Brooks

Thank you, Tamsen.

What a delight to be with you.

That's right.

I've lulled you to sleep at night with the dulcet tones of reading my book.

Okay.

And you need to do it.

No, no, on the contrary.

I've done a lot of different things in my work.

I'm a behavioral scientist by background, but I dedicated myself to the study of happiness when I needed to make a transition myself.

I've written books about happiness in the past, but I really dedicated myself to bringing it to bigger audiences only about seven years ago.

And that was when I was stepping down from a big CEO job and I was lost.

I didn't know what to do.

I mean, I needed to step away.

It was time to step away, but I didn't know if there was another act.

And so I started thinking and doing a lot of research on how people who got happier as they got older, they moved into something that was better for them, but they all had in common.

There's lots of case studies out there of people who do it poorly.

There are a lot of people who are hanging onto the past and you're like,

man, he's really missing a step.

And, you know, I didn't want to be that guy.

And I thought I had something else to give.