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Welcome back everybody. Joining me now is Arthur Brooks. I always love having him on Harvard professor

And the Atlantic's happiness columnist and a and a best-selling author of this latest book

You get a love it's from strength to strength find the success happiness and deep purpose in the second half of life

Arthur, welcome back

Hey Brian, how are you?

Hey, when did you start thinking big picture like this instead of getting involved in the next political campaign or the next

Platform for a political platform

Yeah, well life is short right and and what happened was you know as you know before I

Started teaching at Harvard. I was I was running a think tank in Washington DC

Which was a thrill it was great the American Enterprise Institute

The kind of place that you and I really really like but I started thinking to myself

What do I want to do with the last few decades of my career and the answer is I want to dedicate it to lifting people up and bringing them together

So I teach a class of Harvard on happiness. I read about it in the Atlantic and this new book is

Is really about how each of us can make the investments in our lives so that we can get happier as we get older

Some practically guaranteed that we get happier as we get older and that's what this book is

It's a guide book on how to do it based on flying so he so based on science

So for example if I let's say want to teach the civil war

I would have to sit there and read everything I could then set up a curriculum around it

But I knew exactly where to go

There's written material. How do you research something as

As amorphous as happiness

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