A short single-speaker YouTube talk (Dr. Arthur Brooks) arguing that happiness should be treated scientifically and strategically. The speaker frames happiness as having three "macronutrients"—enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning—and claims that balancing and building a life around these components will reliably improve wellbeing.
You don't want to be subject to feelings. On the contrary, you need something more scientific than that, something more solid than that. Something you can count on and that you can strategize on so that you can build the life that you want around what happiness really is. So this is happiness. If I went back to the Thanksgiving dinner and said, what's your Thanksgiving dinner? And you're kind of a nutrition nerd like me, you'd say protein, carbohydrates and fat. That's all food. Those are called macronutrients. You can build all food on the basis of those macronutrients and it's the same thing. That's true in the case of happiness. Happiness has three macronutrients that you need in balance and abundance in your life. And when you understand the science behind them and create a strategy for getting that balance and abundance, your life will reliably get better. Here's what they are. The three parts of happiness are enjoyment, satisfaction and meaning.
