“The Good Place” will make you laugh, cry, ponder life’s deepest questions and rethink what being “good” truly means. Here are three powerful lessons from the show. You may often wonder if you’re ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it? Forty-plus years of research has pointed to two answers. The first says that a good life is a happy life, one created by pursuing comfort, satisfaction ...

A few years ago, I asked myself a question: if I could bottle the main lessons that I have learned as a psychotherapist, what would they be? After a lot of contemplation I came up with six fundamental ...

It’s a great time to get serious about living a good life. Across the disciplines, the number of scholars engaged in research about happiness and well-being is at its peak, and the wealth of knowledge ...

I've always looked forward to Mother's Day. I embrace it as a useful reminder to pause in the tumult of everyday life, to reflect lovingly and thankfully about my mother — and the mother figures in my ...

Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...