{"id":90559,"date":"2026-04-09T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/open-to-debate-the-meaning-of-your-life-with-arthur-c-brooks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:42:42","slug":"open-to-debate-the-meaning-of-your-life-with-arthur-c-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/open-to-debate-the-meaning-of-your-life-with-arthur-c-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Open to Debate: The Meaning of Your Life with Arthur C. Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s inevitable that at some point in our lives, we&#8217;ll look around and wonder, Is this what I&#8217;m meant to do with my life? What does it mean to live a meaningful life-and why does it feel so hard? That&#8217;s a question that social scientist, Free Press columnist, and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks aspired to Think Twice about. From behavioral science, philosophy, and personal experience, Brooks argues that while we&#8217;re still chasing pleasure and success, we&#8217;ve lost something deeper: meaning. From social media and AI to workaholism and virtual relationships, he makes the case that we&#8217;re trying to solve complex human problems with overly simplistic tools, and it&#8217;s backfiring. In this Think Twice episode, Brooks sits down with guest moderator and Open to Debate CEO Lia Matthow and discusses his new book, &#8220;The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness,&#8221; the growing social crisis hiding in plain sight, researching happiness, and his roadmap for reclaiming a life that actually feels lived.   <b>Featuring:<\/b>  <i>Our Guest: Arthur C. Brooks, New York Times Bestselling Author of &#8220;The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness&#8221;; Professor at Harvard University; Columnist at The Free Press  Lia Matthow, CEO of Open to Debate, is the guest moderator. <\/i><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/08\/open_to_debate_the_meaning_of_your_life_with_arthur_c_brooks.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s inevitable that at some point in our lives, we&#8217;ll look around and wonder, Is this what I&#8217;m meant to do with my life? What does it mean to live a meaningful life-and why does it feel so hard? That&#8217;s a question that social scientist, Free Press columnist, and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks aspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2998,6101,1356,200,4791,676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}