How to Enjoy Your Life

About this episode

Arthur Brooks discusses the importance of savoring life's moments and shares strategies to enhance happiness.

Want to miss (or forget) life’s sweetest moments? Easy: don’t savor anything. My late mother, an artist, knew this was a terrible strategy for happiness. Through her art, she was an expert at savoring—and the first to teach me its benefits. In this episode of Office Hours , I connect her lesson to what we now know from behavioral science: because of our built-in negativity bias, we tend to overlook positive experiences unless we make an effort to notice them. I’ll share three simple ways to do that—so you can experience your life more deeply, remember it more clearly, and find meaning even in the hard moments. Want to go deeper on this—and other ideas from the podcast—and actually put them into practice? If you’re ready to do that work in person, I’ve partnered with MEA, a transformational science-backed retreat center, to bring these principles to life through a series of retreats in Santa Fe. You can find the details at retreats.arthurbrooks.com . — Brought to you by: • David Protein —The most effective portable protein on the planet ⁠https://davidprotein.com/arthur⁠ — Where to find Arthur Brooks: • Website…

People in this episode

Host: Arthur Brooks

Topics covered

• happiness
• savoring
• behavioral science
• mental health
• life experiences

Keywords

• savoring
• happiness
• negativity bias
• behavioral science
• life experiences

Sponsors

David Protein

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MEA

Places: Santa Fe

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