Why Happiness Has Nothing to Do With Success — with Arthur Brooks

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.4 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In the second of a two-part special Office Hours series, Scott Galloway is joined by Harvard professor, bestselling author, and Free Press columnist Arthur Brooks to answer listener questions on fulfillment, work-life balance, finding the right partner, and how to stop letting failure define you. Want to be featured in a future episode? Send a voice recording to officehours@profgmedia.com, or drop your question in the r/ScottGalloway subreddit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Canva.
0:03.1	What's your next big thing?
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0:33.1	Thank you. anything a thing. Learn more at Canva.com. Welcome to Prop G on Getting Your Life Together, a special series where we're joined by Arthur Brooks, Harvard professor, bestselling author, and columnist at the free press.
0:39.5	We went to our listeners with one question.
0:42.5	What's the biggest thing holding your life back right now?
0:44.5	Today, we're going to try and help.
0:48.6	We talk about burnout, distraction, purpose, and building a life that feels more intentional.
0:50.4	Arthur, welcome.
0:51.6	Hey, thank you.
0:52.4	It's great to be with you.
0:53.1	How are you today?
0:54.3	Where are you today?
1:00.2	I'm in London on what is an unusually beautiful sunny day. How about you? I'm in northern Virginia.
1:06.0	I live outside Washington, D.C., actually. Oh, nice. My son is going to be a freshman at UVA.
1:19.6	That's great. It's great here. We actually moved back here from Boston to get all the kids and grandkids in the same general area, including in the same house. So I was reading my own research that said you should have your family all in the same place. And it turns out to be great. We've got a compound. It's a cult, I think.
1:25.2	Nice. That's we'll have a longer conversation, but that's my plan.
1:29.5	Anyways, let's bust right into it.
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