Hmmm… I like this study because it focuses on more than money, it looked at six domains – happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, close social relationships, and financial and material stability.
We may be a wealthier nation, but hardly a flourishing one when you ask regular Americans…
What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences [The Conversation] – “What does it mean to live a good life? For centuries, philosophers, scientists and people of different cultures have tried to answer this question. Each tradition has a different take, but all agree: The good life is more than just feeling good − it’s about becoming whole.
More recently, researchers have focused on the idea of flourishing, not simply as happiness or success, but as a multidimensional state of well-being that involves positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment − an idea that traces back to Aristotle’s concept of “eudaimonia” but has been redefined within the well-being science literature.”