Adam Gopnik: True Happiness & Achievement vs. Accomplishment

Our society is obsessed with achievement, to the point that it's become a rat maze with no way out. We're constantly striving to achieve more, but we never stop to ask ourselves if we're truly happy. Adam Gopnik's new book, "All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters," delves into this idea. Gopnik argues that we need to focus on accomplishment rather than achievement. A staff writer for the New Yorker since 1986, Adam Gopnik was born in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal. His first essay in The New Yorker, appeared in May of 1986 and he served as the magazine’s art critic from 1987 to 1995. That year, he left New York to live and write in Paris, where he wrote the magazine’s “Paris Journal” for the
next five years. He has written 14 books. In the past five years, Gopnik has engaged in many musical projects, working both as a lyricist and libretto writer. Future projects include a new
musical with Scott Frankel. Heather and Adam talk about true happiness, and feeling a true sense of accomplishment vs constantly striving to achieve, the society we live in and
much more, including the origins of Central Park in NYC.