The TODAY Show ran a four-minute segment on Life Worth Living the day following its release, and the response was incredibly positive. TODAY host Hoda Kotb even admitted to ordering a copy of the book as the segment was running live!

Other key moments from the video include responses from current Yale undergraduates taking Life Worth Living this semester: "I’m starting to think more and more that it’s not about what I’m doing, so much as why I’m doing the things I’m doing," Yale sophomore Laua Zeng said. “I’ve realized so far in this class, community is like one of the most important things to me, and to me I feel successful if I embody that value day to day,” Yale senior Abby Walker said.

Miroslav's key points from the video include: “The goal is not to constantly have to think about what kind of life is worth living. ... The goal is for that vision of a good life to become one’s second nature.”

“(The) trouble with money is that pretty soon, money morphs from being a means to achieve certain end, to being an end in itself. The question can be simply, what am I losing by pursuing monetary success? What am I getting and what am I losing?"

“There is a commandment in First Peter, two words: ‘Honor everyone.' Which means I need to listen to them, which means I need to open myself up to see whether I can learn something from a person with whom I profoundly disagree."

“I think pain matters because it opens us up to who we truly are. Often it is possible for that suffering to turn us into something much more beautiful than we were before.”

“If one does it alone, chances of succeeding are much lesser than if one has friends because they make us honest with ourselves and they take us into the places which we otherwise would not have gone,” he said.

You can also read about the interview on the TODAY blog here.

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