About This Book
Modern life has made the oldest human question harder to answer than it's ever been before.
Social scientist and happiness researcher Arthur C. Brooks—author of the New York Times bestseller From Strength to Strength—argues that rapid societal and technological change has rewired our brains, leaving them ill-equipped for existential reckoning. The emptiness people feel isn't imaginary. In The Meaning of Your Life, Brooks offers a structured path forward: a self-assessment to locate where you are on your meaning journey, evidence-based tactics for rewiring thought patterns and a vocabulary for naming what you're actually searching for.
For anyone who suspects the standard answers—success, status, comfort—aren't adding up, this book maps the deeper terrain of transcendence, vocation and significance. Brooks writes with the rigor of a researcher and the clarity of someone who believes the question of meaning is answerable—if you know where to look.