— I bought nearly everything the happiness industry was selling. The one thing it never offered was the question I actually needed. By Sonny Garg At the lowest point of my outwardly successful life, my nightstand held a tower of books about purpose, meaning, and the secret rituals of happy Scandinavians. I was taking cold…
Sonny Garg
About Sonny Garg
Sonny Garg is the author of Desi 2.0: My Family's American Dream and the Cost of Never Being Enough, (Amplify Publishing, August 4, 2026) , a memoir exploring achievement addiction, immigrant identity, and the search for meaning beyond success. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard, Garg was a White House Fellow and rose to executive leadership in a Fortune 125 company. Yet despite achieving many of the milestones he had spent his life pursuing, he found himself asking a difficult question: why didn’t success make him feel successful? Through his writing and speaking, Garg explores how inherited expectations shape our identities and how we can create lives defined not only by achievement, but by connection and belonging. Learn more at Sonny Garg.