Freedom and Flourishing

  Everyone knows that resilience is important in coping with misfortune. However, it may be more important than I had thought. My attentio...

  The accompanying graphic suggests that it does. It is from Michael A Bishop’s book, The Good Life : Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology...

Vipassana is an ancient form of meditation based on practice of equanimity in observation of physical sensations and thoughts. As people who...

  It is well known that in wealthy countries, further improvement of average incomes has only a small impact on average life satisfaction. D...

This might seem like an odd question, so I will begin by explaining why I think it is worth considering. Psychological well-being ...

A good place to begin is with the discussion of the basic goods of “the good life”, by Robert and Edward Skidelsky in their book Ho...

This question came to mind when I was reading the final chapter of Martin Seligman’s latest book, The Hope Circuit . The book is an au...

A few hours after I had finished reading Jordan Peterson’s “ 12 Rules for Life : An antidote to chaos” I thought it might be interesti...

There is no prize for guessing the answer given by Susan Prescott and Alan Logan in The Secret Life of your Microbiome : Why nature and bi...

There is evidence that a discrepancy between the amount of self-transcending emotion (e.g. love, trust) that people want to feel and wha...