2026-09-14
2 小时 50 分钟There are three macronutrients to the happiest life.
The happiest people have enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.
Those are the three macronutrients.
Now, that's important because it means you need to enjoy your life and you need to know the difference between enjoyment
and pleasure, which many people don't.
I mean, the pursuit of pleasure is not the secret to happiness.
It's the secret to rehab.
Satisfaction, which is the joy of an accomplishment or an activity after struggle.
And last but not least is meaning, the why of your existence.
The happiest people have a bead on those three things, and they pursue those three things really, really actively.
Now, inside all three of those things, there's this funny thing called unhappiness.
Inside each of the macronutrients of happiness, you find discontent and frustration and a lot of suffering.
If you spend your life, which many people do today, trying to avoid unhappiness,
trying to avoid and eliminate suffering, they will paradoxically miss their own happiness.
Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
My guest today is Dr. Arthur Brooks.
Arthur Brooks is a professor at Vanderbilt University and a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School.
Today, we discuss what makes people truly happy and what this thing we call happiness is really all about.
What I love about Arthur Brooks and what you'll realize today is that he looks to experimental data,