Office Hours with Arthur Brooks

We picked Office Hours with Arthur Brooks because it treats happiness as a management problem, not a mood. Brooks, a social scientist who teaches at Harvard, builds each episode from behavioral research and classical philosophy—Aristotle on friendship, studies on self-enhancement bias—then applies the findings to daily life. The show favors structural claims over platitudes: friendship ecosystems have ratios, personality traits have measurable trade-offs, well-being has predictors. Dense, direct, and unusually specific for the genre.