#377 ‒ Special episode: Understanding true happiness and the tools to cultivate a meaningful life—insights from past interviews with Arthur Brooks

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I've sat down with Arthur twice in the past few years to talk about how to build a life that's both successful and deeply happy. We've pulled the best moments from these two conversations into one focused episode built around four themes happiness, what hijacks it, the tools and practices that help, and the courage to live and love well, highlighting the most insightful and actionable takeaway steps from previous episodes. I'm really excited about this one because I've actually recently gone back and started rereading one of Arthur's books, and I've come to realize in rereading it that in just a span of a year and a half or two years, it's so easy to forget some of the nuance. And while I rarely have the time to go back and listen to old podcasts, I love having a mashup like this. That actually brings some of the most important aspects from several podcasts into one.

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