Arthur C. Brooks
Harvard Professor & Atlantic Columnist | Co-Author with Oprah Winfrey
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Arthur Brooks teaches leadership and happiness at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School while writing The Atlantic's weekly "How to Build a Life" column. His 13 books include the #1 New York Times bestseller "Build the Life You Want," co-authored with Oprah Winfrey, and "From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life." Brooks applies the science of human happiness to help organizations and individuals build greater well-being, speaking to private companies, universities, public agencies, and faith communities worldwide.
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A conservative's plea: Let's work together
Conservatives and liberals both believe that they alone are motivated by love while their opponents are motivated by hate. How can we solve problems with so much polarization? In this talk, social scientist Arthur Brooks shares ideas for what we can each do as individuals to break the gridlock. "We might just be able to take the ghastly holy war of ideology that we're suffering under and turn it into a competition of ideas," he says.
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Brilliant Minds | 2025 | 🇸🇪Stockholm, Sweden |
| How To Academy | 2023 | |
| Aspen Ideas Festival | 2021 | 🇺🇸Aspen, United States |
| TED 2016 | 2016 | 🇨🇦Vancouver, Canada |
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