Topic
Happiness
Happiness is the study and pursuit of well-being, satisfaction, meaning, and the habits that shape daily life.
Health
Arthur Brooks says conspiracy theories are a meaning crisis, not a facts problem
The happiness scholar's best point on Modern Wisdom is also his riskiest one: your uncle's rabbit hole may be less about bad information than a life that stopped making sense.
The Diary of a CEO·Health
Arthur C. Brooks says 95% of diets fail because the reward is realizing you can never eat what you like again
The happiness scholar's best point is not that willpower is weak, it is that weight-loss goals are often designed to emotionally collapse the moment they succeed.