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May 30, 2022 · When we invest our strengths in the activities of daily living, we can develop the virtues required to live ‘the good life’; a life characterized by positive emotional states, flow, and meaning. Here is a video to learn more from Dr. Seligman about how cultivating your unique strengths is essential for living the good life.
- Let Go of the Past. You won’t be able to continue your life and enjoy your days if you’re stuck in past memories and constantly reliving what happened a long time ago.
- Don’t Take Things Too Personally. We tend to overthink every little detail of our days. We think life is unfair when something bad happens. We keep asking ”why” when someone leaves us.
- Choose Less Over More. In today’s world, it’s easy to overdo it, to buy too much, eat too much, spend too much on that new phone they just released, or work too much.
- Appreciate What You Have. Grateful people live great lives. They are thankful each day for what they have and are so much happier because they focus on the people they love, the opportunities that are everywhere around them, the things they enjoy doing, the time they have, the place they live in, and the friends that surround them.
Even in everyday speech, if we say someone is “living the good life,” we probably mean that they enjoying lots of recreational pleasures: good food, good wine, skiing, scuba diving, lounging by the pool in the sun with a cocktail and a beautiful partner.
- Balance as tempered view. This suggests that seemingly positive phenomena can have negative aspects to them and vice versa. For example, love can involve heartache, and heartache can foster growth.
- Balance as mid-range. This suggests that positive phenomena may be best experienced at moderate as opposed to high levels. For instance, optimism is great unless your optimism is so intense that you lose your college tuition payment by betting it all on black at the roulette table.
- Balance as complementary. This suggests that positive (and negative) phenomena operate together in generating desirable outcomes. For example, being engaged at work may lead to work-life conflict unless the engagement is coupled with conscientiousness.
- Balance as contextual sensitivity. This suggests that whether phenomena are regarded as relatively positive or negative may depend on the situation in which they occur.
May 31, 2024 · Positive psychology focuses on what it means to live “the good life.” Learn about the origins of positive psychology and how it promotes human flourishing.
Jan 26, 2020 · How do we teach them what we believe about living a good life with the right values?”
Mar 11, 2022 · Scientists increasingly focus on three visions of a good life: happiness, meaning, and psychological richness. The vision of a good life that gets prioritized may impact many facets of...
