Arthur C. Brooks: “Happiness is Not a Destination, It’s a Direction.”
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Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Arthur C. Brooks breaks down the science of happiness, teaching why happiness isn’t a feeling but a skill built from enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning. Using neuroscience, psychology, and practical wisdom, he shows how to convert pleasure into true enjoyment and how to steer emotions — rather than be steered by them — for a happier, more intentional life.
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| 0:45.1 | If you're attaching your happiness to a feeling, it's a vapor that you'll be chasing for the rest of your life. |
| 0:47.3 | Your feelings don't exist to make you happy. |
| 0:53.0 | Your feelings exist to give you information about the outside world, and sometimes they're pleasant, |
| 0:55.0 | and sometimes they're not, and you need to be happy because and in spite of the Day show. |
| 1:16.6 | I am your host, Sean Croxton, as Sean Croxton.com. |
| 1:20.2 | We've got Arthur C. Brooks making his debut appearance on the QOD show. |
| 1:25.2 | You're going to love this talk. |
| 1:26.9 | He's going to discuss what we get wrong about happiness, the three macronutrients of |
| 1:34.1 | happiness, and how there are no such things as good and bad feelings. |
| 1:40.5 | Arthur C. Brooks is coming up. |
| 1:44.5 | The first question that I introduced when I start the class is I say, |
| 1:48.7 | you worked hard to get into the happiness class. |
| 1:50.6 | You must know what it is. |
| 1:52.7 | And then I cold call them. |
| 1:54.3 | It's the thing we do at Harvard. |
| 1:55.3 | It makes them unhappy. |
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