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| Writer | Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House |
| Publish Date | 2023 |
| Pages | 226 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
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One of the many things I got from doing The Oprah Winfrey Show for twenty-five years was a front-row seat to unhappiness. Of every, and I mean every, kind. My guests included people devastated by tragedy, betrayal, or deep disappointment. Angry people and people who hold grudges.
Build The Life You Want PDF – Arthur Brooks, Oprah Winfrey
People are doing everything in their power to numb their unhappiness, yet they wake up each day feeling unhappy anyway. I also witnessed abundant happiness. People who had found love and friendship. People use their talents and abilities to do good things. And People who reaped the rewards of selflessness and giving, including one person who’d even donated a kidney to a stranger he’d recently met. Build The Life You Want PDF
People with a spiritual side that brought richer meaning to their lives. People who’d been given a second chance. Where the audience was concerned, the unhappy guests generally provoked empathy; the happy ones, admiration (and maybe a twinge of wistful envy). And then there was a third category of guests that audiences didn’t know what to make of but were genuinely inspired by: people who had every reason to be unhappy and yet were not.
The lemonade-making, silver-linings-finding, bright-side-looking glass-half-fullers. The Mattie Stepaneks is how I came to think of them- Mattie Stepanek being the boy who had a rare and fatal form of muscular dystrophy called dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, yet managed to find peace in all things and play after every storm.
Build The Life You Want PDF – Arthur Brooks, Oprah Winfrey
He wrote lovely poetry, was wise beyond his years, and was the first guest I ever befriended beyond the show. I used to call him my angel guy. How could a boy with a fatal disease be as happy as Mattie was? Same with the mother who was full of peace and purpose and actual joy even as she was preparing to die, recording hundreds of voice tapes for her then-six-year-old daughter about how to live. Build The Life You Want PDF
And the Zimbabwean woman who was married at age eleven, beaten daily, yet instead of giving in to despair, maintained hope, set secret goals, and eventually achieved them—including earning a PhD. How could these people even get out of bed in the morning, let alone be such rays of light? How did they do it? Were they born that way?
Was there a secret or pattern of development the rest of the world should know? Because trust me, if there was such a thing, the world would definitely want to know. In my twenty-five years of doing the show, if there was one thing almost everyone in every audience had in common, it was the desire to be happy.
Build The Life You Want PDF – Arthur Brooks, Oprah Winfrey
As I’ve said before, after every show I’d chat with the audience, and I always asked what they most wanted in life. To be happy, they’d say. Just to be happy. Just happiness. Except, as I’ve also said before, when I asked what happiness was, people suddenly weren’t sure. They’d hem and haw and finally say “losing X number of pounds,” or “having enough money to pay my bills,” or “my kids—I just want my kids to be happy.” Build The Life You Want PDF
So they had goals or wishes, but they couldn’t articulate what happiness looked like. Seldom did anyone have a real answer. This book has the answer, because Arthur Brooks has studied and researched, and lived the answer. I first came across Arthur through his column in The Atlantic, “How to Build a Life.”
I started reading it during the pandemic, and it quickly became something I looked forward to every week because it was all about what I’ve always cared most about: living a life with purpose and meaning. Then I read his book From Strength to Strength, a remarkable guide to becoming happier as you age. This man was singing my song.
Build The Life You Want PDF
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