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How To Build a Happy Life: When Expectations Don’t Meet Reality
Season 3 · Episode 1

How To Build a Happy Life: When Expectations Don’t Meet Reality

The building blocks for realigning expectations and reality in happiness.

How to Age Up · The Atlantic

September 27, 20222m 45strailer

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Show Notes

In our pursuit of a happy life, we build, we structure, and we plan. Often, we follow conventional wisdom and strategize. But what happens when our plans fall through and expectations don’t meet reality—when the things that should make us happy don’t? 

In season 3 of our How To series, Atlantic happiness correspondent Arthur Brooks and producer Rebecca Rashid seek to navigate the unexpected curves on the path to personal happiness—with data-driven insights and a healthy dose of introspection.

This series was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A.C. Valdez and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Matthew Simonson. If you have any questions, stories, or feedback, please email us at [email protected].

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