Valid ways to measure well-being abound, but it's important to balance enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning. Enjoyment is not the same as pleasure, satisfaction is elusive, and meaning requires sacrifice. Achieving happiness takes a game plan and embracing inevitable unhappiness along the way. Research shows that suffering is integral to happiness, contradicting the common assumption that happiness comes from avoiding problems. Happiness takes work, effort, and challenges.
Oprah Winfrey and Arthur Brooks want you to be happier - so the TV megastar and the Harvard academic teamed up to write a book setting out the steps you can take to be a little happier each day.
Over the summer, Dr Laurie Santos read Build the Life You Want, the Art and Science of Getting Happier and loved it. So she recorded a conversation with Arthur touching on how his son found meaning in the marine corps; why you should remove the all mirrors from your home; and whether happiness experts can ever be happy themselves.
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