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#802 - Arthur Brooks - How To Stop Feeling Lost & Find Your True Purpose

2024/6/27
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Arthur Brooks: 本书探讨了人们对幸福的常见误解,指出幸福不是目的地,而是一个方向。幸福并非持续的快乐,而是享受、满足感和意义的平衡。通过努力克服困难,追求超越自我,才能获得持久的幸福。他还分析了现代社会幸福感下降的原因,包括智能手机、社交媒体、文化战争和疫情等因素,并强调了人际关系(信仰、家庭、友谊)和工作的重要性。他提出要管理而非消除对成功的渴望,并建议人们通过冥想、亲近自然等方式提升幸福感。他还探讨了满足感、意义感以及如何应对焦虑等问题。 Chris Williamson: 作为访谈者,Chris Williamson 与 Arthur Brooks 就幸福的本质、获得幸福的策略以及现代社会幸福感下降的原因进行了深入探讨。他积极参与讨论,提出一些具有洞察力的观点,例如成功与幸福的关系,以及如何平衡对成功的追求和对自身价值的肯定。他还与 Arthur Brooks 探讨了如何应对现代社会中普遍存在的焦虑情绪,以及如何培养更健康的人际关系。

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Arthur Brooks is a social scientist, professor at Harvard University, and an author.

Chasing happiness appears to be the ultimate desire for many people, yet almost everyone struggles to understand what happiness actually is and how to achieve it. So if you speak to a specialist researcher, what does science say is the best way to actually cultivate happiness?

Expect to learn what most people get wrong about happiness, the tension between a desire for success and a desire to feel like we’re enough, whether your drive for happiness is rooted in insecurity, if external accolades actually makes us happier, what the macronutrients of happiness are, the most common life elements that people believe will make them happy but actually don't and much more...

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