“The first big mistake that people make is thinking that happiness is a feeling,” Arthur Brooks, professor at Harvard Business School and author of the forthcoming book The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life, says.
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On the first day of class, Brooks asks his students to define “happiness.” Many of those students have a relatively sophisticated understanding of startups and business, but they tend to misunderstand “the startup of their life,” Brooks finds.
“If you want to become a billionaire in the business of life, it’s not about money or power,” Brooks says. “It’s about love and happiness, and they don’t even