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UM Common Reading Experience 2024: Build the Life You Want
Arthur C. Brooks
Arthur C. Brooks is a Harvard professor who teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and social entrepreneurship.
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How to Build a LifeArthur Brooks' recurring column about pointing yourself toward happiness written for the popular American magazine, The Atlantic.
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Sit With Negative Emotions, Don't Push Them AwayIf we want a life full of deep meaning, true love, and emotional strength, it’s going to involve the risk (and often the reality) of discomfort, conflict, and loss.
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Choose Enjoyment Over PleasurePleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human.
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How to Want LessNo matter what we achieve or attain, our biology always leaves us wanting more. But there’s a way out.
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Happiness should not be social science's afterthoughtArthur Brooks thinks studying happiness before "widgets" bring us back to first principles. A Q&A interview with Robert O'Neill, April 7, 2021. Harvard Kennedy School.
Arthur C. Brooks: Leading With Happiness
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an award-winning talk show host, philanthropist, producer and self-made billionaire from Kosciusko, Mississippi.
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The Complete List of All 106 Books in Oprah’s Book ClubMore than two decades’ worth of celebrated titles. Published May 7, 2024.
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Oprah Winfrey Speaks : Insight from the World's Most Influential VoiceAPA Citation:
Winfrey, O., & Lowe, J. (1998). Oprah Winfrey speaks: Insight from the world's most influential voice. Wiley. -
The Oprah PhenomenonAPA Citation:
Harris, J. & Watson, E.(2009). In Jennifer Harris, Elwood Watson (Eds.), The Oprah phenomenon. University Press of Kentucky. JSTOR.