American social scientist, Harvard Business School professor, and former president of the American Enterprise Institute who studies the science of happiness, arguing that meaning, relationships, and transcendence — not achievement — are the sources of lasting wellbeing.
Synthesizes social science research on happiness into a framework distinguishing earned success (meaning through effort) from worldly success (money and status) — arguing that the hedonic treadmill of achievement-seeking is the primary cause of elite misery in modern culture.
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