This Happiness Expert at Harvard Business School Reveals the 'Big Mistake' You're Making — Plus the Money and Career Secrets That Lead to Real Satisfaction
Amanda Breen
created: Aug. 8, 2025, 5 p.m. | updated: Aug. 10, 2025, 4:11 p.m.
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.
"Chasing feelings [of happiness], which is like chasing the smell and trying to get healthy, is not going to work," Brooks says.
The answer is a "very big, ethereal term," according to Brooks: "Calling."
But you're not going to be happier, and you're going to be drawing the wrong kind of person."
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