Happiness scientist Arthur Brooks on how to achieve Washington with out sacrificing your well-being

However the oldest story in Washington is how the hunt for energy virtually all the time comes on the expense of what everybody says they really need: happiness.

After all it’s not only a Washington story. It’s a part of a a lot greater story afflicting the nation.

Life expectancy in America is down from the place it was earlier than the pandemic, pushed by so-called deaths of despair: deadly drug overdoses, alcohol-related illnesses and suicides.

Despair, anxiousness and persistent sickness are all on the rise.

Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon Normal, has described a nationwide “Loneliness Epidemic” that has the same…