Good morning, Michael. Good to see you. How is this week looking on the next big idea daily?

Well, Rufus, good to see you, too. It's looking good, you know? It's looking good. It's hard to work when it's this hot outside, but we're doing it.

We're working hard every day to curate the best new nonfiction and serve it up in under 15 minutes.

All designed to help people live a little brighter, as you like to say.

Yeah, yeah, we like that term live brighter.

It kind of gets at what we're trying to do with helping people live smarter and happier.

I want to live brighter.

So what do we have coming up?

Well, this week, we're going to learn how you can stop being a people-pleaser. I feel like

you're targeting me, Michael. We're also going to talk about how you can use reframing to make

better business decisions. And today, we're going to hear from one of the biggest happiness

gurus out there. Ah, which one? Well, I think you know him. It's Atlantic columnist and Harvard

Professor Arthur C. Brooks. I love you know him. It's Atlantic columnist and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks.

I love Arthur Brooks. We had him on the pod. Great conversation. And we're going to get him on again

in the next month. Yeah, that's right. He's going to be talking to you about his new book,

The Happiness Files. And today we've got a sneak preview of that. We've got Arthur on to share

five of the big ideas from his book. Listeners, just remember if you're not already signed up

for the next big idea daily, you can do that in the episode notes. When you're there,

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inbox. All right, here's today's show with Arthur C. Brooks.

Good morning, friends. I'm Michael Kovnet, and this is the next big idea daily.

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