Why does life feel empty — even when everything seems “fine”?

Fr. Mike Schmitz and Dr. Arthur Brooks, Harvard professor and bestselling author, unpack the real reason so many of us feel restless, anxious, and unfulfilled.

Drawing from both science and the Catholic faith, they explore:
🔸why pleasure isn’t the same as happiness
🔸the “arrival fallacy” and why success doesn’t satisfy
🔸how modern life trains us to avoid waiting
🔸what it actually means to find lasting joy

✨Join Dr. Arthur Brooks on March 27 for his book launch event with a host of interesting guests. This event is free, virtual, and LIVE! To register and learn more about his new book, go to themeaningofyourlife.com.✨

The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, by Arthur C. Brooks, will be published on March 31.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Strength to Strength, the definitive account of how the modern world makes meaning so hard to find—and a plan to discover your life’s deepest purpose.

If you struggle to discern life’s meaning, you’re not alone. Millions today describe a growing sense of emptiness, a lack of purpose and significance. And there’s a reason: Rapid cultural, economic, and technological changes have rewired our brains, reducing their ability to perceive depth and purpose.

In The Meaning of Your Life, social scientist and happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks shows you how to push back against these changes and find the meaning you need to live a happy, fulfilling life. Relying on cutting-edge science, he offers practical, evidence-based strategies for breaking free of the powerful trends and personal habits that dull your focus on the why of your life. Drawing on the great philosophers and the world’s faith traditions, he shows how everyone can—and must—approach life’s most important and mysterious questions and provides a blueprint that will help even the most skeptical person find a life of spiritual transcendence, passionate love, and true calling.

“What is the meaning of my life?” is not an unanswerable question, but rather the start of a pilgrimage into unexplored corners of your consciousness. The Meaning of Your Life is your handbook for this journey.

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