1KHO 551: The Science of Happiness Every Parent Needs to Hear | Arthur Brooks, The Happiness Files

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What if everything you’ve been taught about success, work, and happiness is incomplete? In this powerful conversation, Harvard professor and bestselling author Arthur Brooks joins Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast to share the science of happiness—and why every parent needs to hear it. With warmth, humor, and groundbreaking research, Brooks reveals why retirement shouldn’t be the goal, why conflict in families is a sign of abundant love, and why your kids are shaped far more by what they see you do than by what you say. His insights on the four pillars of happiness—faith, family, friendship, and work—will challenge cultural myths and leave you rethinking the way you parent and the way you live. From the dignity of work to the difference between “deal” friends and “real” friends, Brooks offers a blueprint for building a life of deeper meaning. You’ll hear surprising truths about money (hint: buying experiences beats buying stuff), why falling in love is the most entrepreneurial act you’ll ever take, and how beauty and nature reawaken parts of our brain that modern life neglects. If you’ve ever wondered how to raise kids who thrive—and how to find more joy yourself—this episode is full of practical wisdom and hope. Get your copy of The Happiness Files here Don't miss From Strength to Strength! Get it here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:02.6	My name is Ginny Hurts.
0:03.6	I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:05.8	And I am so excited about today's guest.
0:09.2	Arthur Brooks is here.
0:10.2	Welcome.
0:11.2	Thanks.
0:12.2	It's so great to be with you.
0:13.1	Thanks for having me on this wonderful show.
0:15.4	So Arthur Brooks, Harvard professor, PhD, social scientist,
0:19.1	number one bestselling author, columnist at the Atlantic.
0:22.0	You speak all over the world. And you have written so many phenomenal books. I have five right
0:27.6	here. Amazing. And I know you have way more than this. Five of them. I've read four and a quarter.
0:34.1	So the newest one that's coming out and will be out when this podcast airs is called
0:37.9	the Happiness Files, Insights on Work and Life. But I have also read, and you have just been
0:42.5	a book after book after book. It's like 2021, 2021, 2022, 2023. From strength to strength,
0:50.2	every person in the entire world should read this book finding success, happiness, and deep purpose
0:54.7	in the second half of life. It has like 7,000 Amazon reviews. I read The Conservative Heart.
0:59.7	I read, Build the Life You Want that you wrote with Oprah. And then I read part of Love Your Enemies.
1:04.8	And they're all page turners and they all have topics in them that I have not considered.
1:10.0	And so I would love to start here with this thought of it feels like the cultural message,
1:16.6	even if nobody really talks about it, that our whole purpose in life outside of faith is to retire.
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