How a chance encounter on a plane sparked a quest to uncover life’s meaning. Arthur C. Brooks shares research-grounded tips to help your happiness levels soar.
Authors: Arthur C. Brooks, Suzanne Hogseth | Source: IESE Insight (May2025) | Subjects: Career, Happiness, Personal Improvement
Human beings have two fundamental needs above and beyond basic survival:
- Relational needs: to develop and maintain social relationships with others.
- Epistemic needs: to establish the sense of knowing what is real and true in the world.
Both needs are dependent on other people. While we can, of course, have our own version of the truth, feeling alone in our opinions can undermine the extent to which those … [ Read more ]
Author: Maya Rossignac-Milon | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry
As the social scientist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl noted in his writings, we are motivated not so much by money or material objects as by a fundamental need for meaning in our lives, which may come from family, religion, our vocation or something else that acts as the modal force of who we are as individuals.
Author: Claudine Gartenberg | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Concepts, Meaning, Motivation, Psychology | Behavior