New York Times Sunday Review: "Love People, Not Pleasure"

I really enjoyed this Op-Ed from the New York Times, which explores the tension between happiness and unhappiness as two individual scales rather than one comprehensive spectrum. The article's author is Arthur C. Brooks, who is the president of the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. that I had the chance to visit on a trip in high school). The article tackles important questions about the pursuit of happiness through extrinsic desires (e.g., fame, material goods, pleasure, etc.), when it is actually more wholly derived from intrinsic ones. My takeaway: our problem is "love things, use people." The solution: "love people, use things."

Read the article here.