Arthur C. Brooks

No, probably not.

I sort of feel like nothing's off the table.

There's certain things that are probably physically off the table, but I feel like, I mean, at some point, I'm going to probably slow down, but at this point, it's just so exciting.

So your mom minus four, kind of.

Yeah, well, that's a big question, but that's sort of the new project.

So, you know, that From Strength to Strength was a book that I wrote because I really needed it.

And it's largely for people who are trying to design the second half of their own lives.

This new book, The Meaning of Your Life, I'm writing it for my 28-year-old students, which is also kind of for all of us.

Yeah.

And the reason is because what I found in my research is the number one predictor of depression and anxiety is the inability to be able to articulate the meaning of your own life.

And this is a new problem.

This is not a problem that people were even thinking about in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

There's something going on where people have a hard time understanding, feeling, articulating, sharing the meaning of their life, and it's making them horrified.

horribly anxious and depressed, especially young adults, but not exclusively young adults.

So this is a book that looks at the science of how you find the meaning of your life and how to live differently in a way that's really helping me a lot and my adult kids too.

we were better able to understand it before.

So probably your grandparents, if you'd said, grandma, what's the meaning of life?

And she'd be like, what are you talking about?

But she had a really, really good understanding of what the meaning of her life was.

And so the result of it was that a lot of maladies that we have today of really rampant, what we call a psychogenic epidemic, which is just a fancy way of saying that people are suffering a lot with not a biological origin.