{"id":389577,"date":"2026-04-09T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389577\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:18:07","slug":"happiness-expert-arthur-brooks-wants-to-help-you-find-the-meaning-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389577\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness expert Arthur Brooks wants to help you find &#8216;The Meaning of Your Life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do high-achieving young people often suffer anxiety and depression? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurbrooks.com\/the-meaning-of-your-life\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arthur Brooks<\/a>, who teaches at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School and business school, says many of them are searching for meaning in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\nHis new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Meaning-Your-Life-Finding-Emptiness\/dp\/0593545427\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness<\/a>,\u201d is a how-to for those who are searching for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Book excerpt: \u2018The Meaning of Your Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p>By Arthur Brooks<\/p>\n<p>From \u201cThe Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness\u201d by Arthur C. Brooks, published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright (c) 2026 by ACB Ideas LLC.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/04\/08\/meaning-of-your-life-arthur-brooks\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why do high-achieving young people often suffer anxiety and depression? Arthur Brooks, who teaches at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-389577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}