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Growing up, my parents told me that what they most wanted for me was to be happy, but they never actually defined the term.

Happy. How was I supposed to know what it meant?

So I did all the things that successful people around me did. I worked hard at school, I was a striver.

I got a college degree, a master's degree, I landed a good job and eventually I married an awesome woman.

But did I feel happy?

Are you happy?

Arthur Brooks thinks that even asking that question is the wrong way to think about happiness.

He's just worked with Oprah Winfrey on a new book called Build the Life You Want, the Art and Science of Getting Happier.

And this idea, it was one of the first questions I thought through together.

She's like, so happiness is not the goal. I'm like, no, you can't get happiness.

You can't get it because you have to have negative experiences and negative emotions.

Or you'll die and you'll never actually find happiness.

So you can't get the happiness. It's a real paradox. It's a direction, not a destination.

So she said, so the goal is actually a happy Uranus. I said, that's it. That's a word that needs to exist.

I mean, just think about it for a second.

Arthur Brooks, a social scientist who teaches about happiness and leadership at Harvard and Oprah Winfrey, who is Oprah Winfrey.

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