Arthur Brooks is a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School and the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, where he writes the weekly “How to Build a Life” column. The author of 14 books (one of which he coauthored with Oprah Winfrey), he is known as one of the world’s leading experts on the science of happiness.

What’s the big idea?

Happiness is really all about the business of life. Your life is like a startup business, and you should manage it as such. You’re the founder, and you need to be able to take risks and know what the currency is of the fortune you’re trying to accumulate. The Happiness Files shows how to become more successful in getting what you truly want by seeing your life in this

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