Oprah Winfrey: Envy is “the great destroyer” of happiness

Scrolling through social media can make people unhappy, Oprah Winfrey told “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell in an interview for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” airs Sunday, September 10 on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

[A preview will be featured on Friday’s “CBS Evening News,” and more will be presented Sept. 14 on “Person to Person with Norah O’Donnell” on the CBS News Streaming Network.]

Winfrey and Harvard professor Arthur Brooks co-authored the book “Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Becoming Happier” (out September 12), where they explore what it takes to live a happier life.

Brooks told O’Donnell that social media is “this laboratory for the earthly goals that actually make you miserable.”

Winfrey added, “Everybody looks at other people’s social media, what they think is other people’s lives, which is just a snapshot of other people’s lives, and feels envious of that. And one of the things Arthur and I talk about in this book is that envy is the great destroyer … It is the happiness killer.”

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