1: “My parents were, in many ways, the Odd Couple,” Arthur Brooks writes in The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.
His father was a mathematician who earned a PhD in biostatistics.
“He loved the elegance of math and statistics and talked about these subjects constantly,” Arthur recalls. “During dinners when I was a kid, he would describe great unsolved problems and give us … continue reading
1: Arthur Brooks is a specialist in the science of happiness.
But in the fall of 2019, he wasn’t feeling very happy himself.
“I felt very unheimlich,” he writes in his new book The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.
Unheimlich?
“That’s a German word that’s hard to translate precisely,” Arthur notes. “It means the gut feeling of uneasiness you get when things just…aren’t … continue reading
