Why Success Won't Make You Happy — with Arthur Brooks | Office Hours

The gist

1. Brooks says people often feel empty because they chase what they were told to want, and should remove things rather than add more.
2. Brooks says happiness mixes enjoyment, satisfaction and meaning, dipping through the 20s to 40s, rising in the 50s, with about half declining again around 70.
3. Brooks calls work-life balance a lie and argues for work-life integration, advising people to let themselves be found by a partner who makes them better.
4. Brooks recommends a paper failure journal: note the setback, add what you learned after 3 weeks, then something good after 2 months.
5. Galloway cites Adam Alter's research that people's top regret is being too hard on themselves, and Brooks urges getting a head start on not caring.