At the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, we have been assessing how well people are doing and why, both in the United States and globally. To try to understand the factors that shape flourishing, we are launching our Global Flourishing Study, which...
At the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, we have been advocating more systematic measurement of well-being to better assess what is going well and what isn’t, how things are changing over time, who needs help, and in what ways. Click here to read the full...
This post from the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard on methodology for flourishing is a bit more technical than others. Nonetheless, it seemed worthwhile to share a concise, synthetic account of our thinking to date about the best practices for investigating the...
Our confrontation with suffering and death provides an important opportunity for reflection. What is it that we value most? What relationships need forgiveness or reconciliation? How should we understand our lives and our own mortality? Both empirical data and...
