Bestselling author and columnist Arthur Brooks is inspiring people through his writing to embrace happiness.
The behavioral scientist, who is also a professor at Harvard University, started researching happiness because he too wanted to be happy.
"I always kind of viewed happiness like astronomy," he said. "An astronomer doesn't think he is going to change the stars. He is going to study the stars and that's how I looked at happiness."
He credits his wife for helping to change his viewpoint when he was in his 50s, saying he is 60% happier than he was five years ago. "My wife said 'It is kind of ironic that you study happiness but you are not a happy person' … She said, 'Why don't you see if you can change your own' … I changed my habits and then I started teaching a class on it at Harvard and my life started to change. It's really true," Brooks said.
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