About This Book
Happiness isn't something that happens to you — it's something you build, starting now, with what you already have.
Arthur C. Brooks, social scientist and Harvard professor, and Oprah Winfrey draw on cutting-edge research and hard-earned personal wisdom to argue that emotional self-management — not external circumstance — is the real engine of a joyful life. Build the Life You Want organizes that argument around four pillars: family, friendship, work and faith. Each chapter pairs research-backed practices with candid stories from the authors' own lives and from ordinary people who have found joy despite real hardship.
For anyone who has been waiting for life to get easier before getting happier, this book makes the case that the waiting itself is the problem — and that the tools to change course are already within reach.