Arthur C. Brooks teaches a class on happiness at Harvard, exploring what truly brings us joy, how to create a happy life, and gives the tools you need to construct a life that feels whole and meaningful.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Harvard Business School Professor Arthur Brooks began a column in The Atlantic on happiness, continuing the themes he teaches in his Harvard class. If you want to increase your happiness, he offers a new way of thinking about what truly drives life satisfaction. This becomes particularly relevant as we begin to slowly enter post-pandemic life and begin re-designing our lives within the context of the lessons learned in the confusion of the last year. We felt that it was a good time to revisit what it is that truly makes us happy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once famously said, “Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Brooks’ work draws on all literature and all sources of wisdom in the hope of helping you identify the building blocks of happiness—family, career, friendships, faith, and so on—and giving you the tools to use them to construct a life that is balanced and full of meaning, and that serves your values.
Read more at The Atlantic.
