#802 - Arthur Brooks - How To Stop Feeling Lost & Find Your True Purpose

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Arthur Brooks is a social scientist, professor at Harvard University, and an author. Chasing happiness appears to be the ultimate desire for many people, yet almost everyone struggles to understand what happiness actually is and how to achieve it. So if you speak to a specialist researcher, what does science say is the best way to actually cultivate happiness? Expect to learn what most people get wrong about happiness, the tension between a desire for success and a desire to feel like we’re enough, whether your drive for happiness is rooted in insecurity, if external accolades actually makes us happier, what the macronutrients of happiness are, the most common life elements that people believe will make them happy but actually don't and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to 70% off Gymshark's Summer Sale at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MW10) Get 10% off all Legendary Foods purchases at https://EatLegendary.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get a 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 5.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:02.8	My guest today is Arthur Brooks.
0:04.8	He's a social scientist, professor at Harvard University,
0:08.0	and an author.
0:09.2	Chasing happiness appears to be the ultimate desire for many people and yet almost everyone struggles
0:14.9	to understand what happiness actually is and how to achieve it. So today I get to ask a
0:20.5	specialist researcher on what science actually says about the best way to cultivate lasting happiness.
0:27.0	Expect to learn what most people get wrong about happiness, the tension between a desire for success and a desire to feel like we're enough.
0:34.4	Whether your drive for happiness is rooted in insecurity, if external accolades actually make us
0:39.9	happier, what the macro nutrients of happiness are, the most common life elements that people believe
0:45.3	will make them happy but actually don't, and much more. Arthur is great. He wrote this book with Oprah Winfrey and it is really tactical. A lot of these things kind of end up being platitudes and a bit of whimsy and some nice mantras but this is really really tactical and there is tons to take away from today an awful lot probably way
1:05.8	more than you're going to have time to apply even if you split it up across an
1:09.7	entire year so yeah I love the fact that this is a strategic and practical approach to a problem that everybody feels deep down
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