Tal shares how chasing squash championships and academic success led him to a painful realization: the “arrival” he was pursuing didn’t exist. That dissatisfaction became the spark for his life’s work on happiness, meaning, and what it really means to become happier over time, not perfectly happy once and for all.
Together we explore the “arrival fallacy,” anti-fragility, his SPIRE model of whole-person well-being, the power of relationships and community, and why letting our kids struggle might be one of the greatest gifts we can give them. We also touch on money as a “hygiene factor,” something that can make us miserable when it’s missing, but can’t deliver a meaningful life on its own.
