Arthur Brooks on how to build a meaningful life
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Arthur Brooks is a bestselling author and Harvard professor best known for his work on the science of happiness. He joins host Jeff Berman to reveal the insights at the heart of his new book: The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.
Link to Arthur's new book The Meaning of Your Life: https://www.arthurbrooks.com/books/the-meaning-of-your-life
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| 1:43.8 | startup. You are the startup. |
| 1:45.9 | You are the startup, or as Reid Hoffman would put it, this is about the startup of you. |
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| 1:56.1 | But Arthur Brooks isn't just talking about people literally building a company. |
| 2:02.0 | He wants all of us to approach our personal lives as seriously as we approach our professional lives. To help us do that, |
| 2:09.5 | Arthur just published an absolutely unput-downable, that's a word, unput-downable new book |
| 2:15.4 | called The Meaning of Your Life. While we had him, I couldn't |
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