What Actually Makes People Happy
The deep relationships of life and the losing of self-sufficiency.
The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live | David Brooks ·
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- What Is a Form of LonelinessFor David Brooks, loneliness unexpectedly came to him in the form of fear, of a burning in his stomach. It felt like drunkenness and a lack of solidity.
- What Is Are Some Lies That Our Culture Tells UsDavid Brooks admits that he has fallen for these cultural lies. The first lie is that career success is fulfilling.
- How Do You Get Out of a ValleyYou can't climb out. Someone has to reach in and pull you out. From the dark period, David states you have to have a few realizations.
- What Does David Brooks Say Is Both an Art and a Fortunate Accident?On TED Talks Daily, David Brooks quotes an old man in Louis de Bernières's novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, speaking to his daughter about a late wife.
- What Are Weavers Doing in LifeThey reach down and grab people out of the valley. They live a relationalist life, not an individualistic life.
- What Is JoyJoy is a better thing to aim for than happiness. Joy is not the expansion of the self, it’s the dissolving of the self.
- Why Are We in a National ValleyWe need a lot of environmental and economic change. It’s because we don’t have the mindset to balance it.
- What Is the Theory of Social ChangeAccording to David, his theory of social change is that society changes when a small group of people find a better way to live and the rest of us copy them.
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