Harvard's Arthur C. Brooks on the Secrets to Joy in Your Career

Harvard Business Review · Oct 15, 2026 · 41m

Harvard’s Arthur C. Brooks on the Secrets to Happiness at Work

12 Sep 2023

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To the strivers and workaholics out there, bestselling author and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks has a message for you: change your behavior before it’s too late. Brooks was one of you: a pace-setting boss who expected others to work 80-hour weeks just like him, leaving little time for friends and family. He says he was addicted not to work, but to success. And he missed watching his kids grow up. Today he classifies behavior like his as a pathology that can lead to misery. And he has concrete, actionable…