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A Good Life.

A Good Life.

An exercise in futility.

John Ellis
Aug 22, 2025
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1. 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 and more joy than sadness. The second says that a good life is a meaningful life, one grounded by purpose, connection and making the world better. But recently, researchers have proposed a third answer: A good life is a psychologically rich life, marked by novel experiences, perspective-shifting insights and complexity, but also more discomfort and challenges than a happy life or a meaningful life. (Source: washingtonpost.com)


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