Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Life is short. How do we live it well?
Harvard professor Arthur Brooks has spent years studying happiness. In this episode, he joins Shilo to explore what neuroscience, faith, and philosophy reveal about how to live a happy life.
Most of us are caught up in either the pursuit of empty pleasures or the pursuit of great achievement—“slacker” and “striver” extremes that keep us in a doom loop, like addicts.
The real keys to happiness are deepening relationships, cultivating faith, and committing to lifelong learning, without concern for external validation or reward. Above all, we must learn to love and be loved and to accept suffering and heartbreak as features, not bugs, of a meaningful life.
Arthur’s latest book, The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, comes out on March 31.
Life is short. How do we live it well?
Harvard professor Arthur Brooks has spent years studying happiness. In this episode, he joins Shilo to explore what neuroscience, faith, and philosophy reveal about how to live a happy life.
Most of us are caught up in either the pursuit of empty pleasures or the pursuit of great achievement—“slacker” and “striver” extremes that keep us in a doom loop, like addicts.
The real keys to happiness are deepening relationships, cultivating faith, and committing to lifelong learning, without concern for external validation or reward. Above all, we must learn to love and be loved and to accept suffering and heartbreak as features, not bugs, of a meaningful life.
Arthur’s latest book, The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, comes out on March 31.
