Welcome back to How to Build a Happy Life.

I'm Arthur Brooks, Harvard professor and contributing writer at The Atlantic.

And I'm Rebecca Rashid, a producer at The Atlantic.

Why did I say it like that?

Okay.

And I-

Because you're a millennium.

And you end up, you gotta end up.

Everything's a question. Don't forget.

A producer at The Atlantic? Where am I?

In season three of How To, we explore why are expectations of a happy life

or often out of touch with reality?

Even previously healthy and adaptive behaviors now have become drugified.

There was no space in that schedule that I used to have of work, work, work, drink,

go to bed, work, work, work, drink, go to bed.

To even have a thought about what in that day did I enjoy?

So Arthur, I always thought work would be the thing that made me happy.

There's a reason for that, that guy.

You can control a lot of things about your work life and the tendencies to think that

everything else will fall into place on its own.

You might even be something of a workaholic because it might not have made you happy,

but you got really good at it, right?

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