Harvard professor Arthur Brooks reveals his secret to happiness

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[jw]

Why can't they just let him talk??!!

[Dana-eepb]

The connection with family and friends by working from home is far superior to randos at work.

[mikek.]

Joe with his giant EGO!! He won't allow anybody to speak.... He knows everything and he's the

[kenny]

CNBC should have more of these discussions

[doubleoseven]

I’ve been on zoom for 3 years now and I’m way happier than in the office

[opinion]

Yes, relationships with people are what make people happy. Of course having enough money to live without worry helps too.

[joseb]

How does this guy teach at Harvard? He’s clearly a smooth brain — speaking in definitives and so sure of his opinion. Crazy.

[MathSolutionsForYou]

Most of the relationships that give us happiness (e.g. friends, partner, spouse, children, family) are social relationships as opposed to relationships you develop at work which are mostly professional in nature. The problem is that work is often so consuming that it does not leave any room for anything else. Working from home provides the opportunity and time to nurture relationships that make people more happy. You can figure it out by simple math: if you spend 40 minutes in commute, 5 days a week, your time spent in a year (50 weeks) just commuting (adding little or no productivity) is 10000 minutes which is equivalent to 167 hours (more than 4 work weeks, assuming 40 hrs/week of work). If you give all that time to develop your family/social relationships you will be in a much happier place. Most of the employees report better mental well-being working from home than in office. This exactly shows what's wrong with Harvard and its professors -- their research is ill-informed and their message and conclusions could not be far off from the ground truth !

[michaeld.anderson]

Relationship first. Harvard's 80 year study on happiness came to the same conclusion :)

[KhamPisethOfficial]

The secret to happiness is Teaching Other To Be Happy ❤

[tancore]

Is it me or the CNBC guys were interrupting him too much?

[AlwaysLoudAA]

Trust me, my oxytocin levels are 1000x higher at home with my pets and wife and kid than it is with random boomers at my office 4x a week. What is he smoking?

[natalyashagramanova]

Will these people stop interrupting???

[LuukBotter]

Worst interview ever. Please stop interrupting him

[annecivetta]

After a short discussion about politics in the U.S. and South Africa, my taxi driver in Cape Town told me he knew the secret to peace and happiness. And I asked him to share the secret. “Love, “ he told me. “Love is the way to peace and happiness.” And he’s right!

[fernandodoria]

I believe Happiness comes from Spiritual Wealth, not Monetary or Man Made Wealth. We get Spiritual Wealth from loving and helping our family, friends and others more.

[wohola]

More content like this, managing life and happiness like managing business.

[wread]

My parents were always controlling and yelling, absolutely no comfort Or oxytocin, I’ve struggled with anxiety and low self esteem my whole life cause of them, I’m 40 now

[Mtylgd]

This only makes sense in a utopia where all employees you work with don’t drive you crazy. 99% of people have that handful of coworkers that make them wish they can work from home.

[wryltxw]

Happiness is not having to wear a tie due to arbitrary customs.