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Keynote Speaking
As a behavioral social scientist, prolific author, and in-demand speaker, Arthur has given over 1,400 speeches in the last decade in 145 cities around the world. Arthur engages his audiences using a blend of cutting-edge science, ancient wisdom, philosophy, music, and art, while delivering real-life strategies for lifting people up, bringing them together, and improving happiness for all.
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Arthur's Books
Arthur is the bestselling author of 12 books on topics ranging from economic opportunity to human happiness. His most recent #1 New York Times bestseller, From Strength to Strength, is a guide to finding meaning, success, and deep purpose in the second half of life.

How to Build a Happy Life
with Arthur Brooks
In this series, host Arthur Brooks digs into research and offers tools to help you live more joyfully. Join us for deep conversations with psychologists, experts, and friends of The Atlantic's Chief Happiness Correspondent. For more info, visit www.theatlantic.com/happy.
Arthur's Articles

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
“It’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to…

AEI’s President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
In the summer of 2008 I was happily working as a professor at Syracuse University when I received an unexpected phone call. For the previous…

The Dalai Lama and Arthur Brooks: Behind our anxiety, the fear of being unneeded.
In many ways, there has never been a better time to be alive. Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live…