Arthur C. Brooks: Finding Success, Happiness, and Purpose Later in Life

The question of how to be happy in mid-life consumes many adults as they age. For Arthur C. Brooks, the former president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of 11 books, the search for true life success after age 50 became an opportunity for a personal life transformation that he believes others can be inspired by and follow.
In his new book, From Strength to Strength, Brooks describes embarking on a seven-year journey to discover how to transform his future from one of disappointment over waning abilities into an opportunity for progress. The result for him? A practical roadmap for the rest of his life. Brooks's journey starts with the somewhat mistaken assumption that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. Brooks soon finds the truth is that the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful it is when it occurs.
Brooks's unique outlook draws on social science, philosophy, biography, theology, and eastern wisdom, as well as dozens of interviews with everyday men and women. In it, Brooks shows us that true life success is well within our reach. By refocusing on certain priorities and habits that anyone can learn, such as deep wisdom, detachment from empty rewards, connection and service to others, and spiritual progress, we can set ourselves up for increased happiness.
Please join us for a discussion about how you, too, can go from strength to strength.
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Denise Michaud
SPEAKERS
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Arthur Brooks
Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
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In Conversation with Tully Friedman
Co-Founder, FFL Partners and Hellman & Friedman
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THE LOVE THAT YOU SHARE WITH ANIMALS IS GREAT TOO!!!! GREAT TIPS!!!!

[@gmc22340]

Fascinating discussion by two Learned, Moral, Inquisitive & beautifully Humble,--my favorite virtue--gentlemen to help quench my ever eager search for life-enriching knowledge. Thank You Both. Respectfully, Gerry Coffey, Much Blessed 82 y-old still-grieving widow for lost life-companion, Mother, Grandmother & Great Grandmother "The day we stop Learning, We stop Living" --Unknown Author

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GREAT TIPS!!!!

[@SouthFloridasRestaurantGuy]

Spot on!

[@DavidGee88]

Awesome insights

[@eleanorbertuch135]

Excellent presentation. Thank you 👏👏👏

[@quacktuber1051]

I'm an Engineer, and lost respect for him when he started spouting unsubstantiated rationale for woke-ism. "We have a big problem with not enough women in Engineering and diversity". Lol. Ok. If men do or don't want to be nurses as much as women do that's not a problem and likewise for women and Engineering. What nonsense.

[@matthiastroitzsch7666]

Understandable, but consider that there are many old structures that favored either gender in various positions traditionally and therefore kept the status quo. It starts with the pink/light blue separation in early life or the fact that women were not supposed to be in engineering but rather with the kids at home. Men on the other hand had to be the bread winners and be in "manly" jobs. Therefore, long-established structures kept it hard for more women to go into male-dominated jobs even if they wanted to and were really capable. And vice versa, men did not traditionally go into jobs that are female-dominated, keeping those away that might be very capable and well-suited for nursing jobs. It is to a big degree what has been cultivated for ages.

[@grheryford]

@@matthiastroitzsch7666 - what you say MIGHT be true. However, the way people are going about pushing for change, by demonizing a particular race and gender is what’s extremely flawed. As Arthur Brooks said “Nobody in history has been insulted into agreeing”. The demonization we’ve been seeing is WAY worse than a basic insult.