The Science Of Building The Life You Want | Arthur Brooks
Summary
Arthur Brooks co-hosts a discussion with Dan Harris on building a fulfilling life through the "three macronutrients" of happiness: enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose. They explore how to transform fleeting pleasure into lasting enjoyment by adding relationships and memory, and how to achieve satisfaction by embracing struggle and reducing desires rather than accumulating more. Brooks also addresses the modern crisis of anxiety among young people, arguing that protecting them from normal social adversity hinders their emotional growth and ability to find meaning.
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