PERSON, DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR ID AND A WEEK FROM TODAY, VOTERS WILL DECIDE IF MONEY FROM OMAHA’S AVENUE ONE GOOD LIFE DISTRICT WILL STAY IN THE CITY. THOSE DISTRICTS HAVE A REDUCED SALES TAX RATE ...

In her small dorm room, junior Anne Kwok only has space for a handful of books. Almost all of them are from an IntroSem she took frosh year: “Perspectives on the Good Life.” The texts included Emily ...

Decades of debate about human values may finally be resolved by a new model that reveals five core values that shape our choices, relationships, and sense of purpose.

Positive psychologists are interested in the good life. What this refers to is the search to understand ways in which to improve human happiness and what makes life worth living. Thanks to the ...

What makes for a good life? Is it pleasure or enjoying the passage of time, as James Taylor once sang? Or is it more about living life with purpose and contributing to other people’s well-being? While ...

As a young mechanical engineering student, and later as a medical student, Yale’s Samuel Wilkinson became fascinated with what science — particularly theories of evolution — might tell us about the ...

What is the good life? That’s the primary question I’m trying to answer with this blog. Shortcuts and lifehacks are great. Surprising trivia is nice. But how can we really live great lives? I don’t ...

Oscar Davis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

In his powerful book The Burnout Society, South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an "achievement society" in ...

“This one” is Birbiglia’s new one-man show The Good Life, and in terms of production, it’s a far cry from telling a story in a bar in every measurable way. For one thing, we’re not at a bar, we’re at ...

This question might seem to defy a definitive, universally applicable answer, but nevertheless, this is what Robert J. Waldinger ’73 tries to tackle in his 2015 TED Talk. His attempt has earned him ...

New global data shows what makes for a flourishing life. It isn’t what we think. Perhaps this sounds familiar: A church group spent a week in a developing country, building houses for people most ...