Are You Flourishing? This Global Study Has Surprising Takeaways

Are you flourishing? It’s a more understated metric than happiness,
but it can provide a multidimensional assessment of our quality of
life. Victor Counted, an associate professor of psychology at
Regent University and a member of the Human Flourishing Program at
Harvard University, joins host Rachel Feltman to review the first
wave of results from the five-year, 22-country Global Flourishing
Study. Counted reflects on the difficulty of applying a universal
concept to varied cultural contexts and ways that we can control
our own flourishing.  Recommended reading: Read the study See
an article about the study co-authored by Counted Societies with
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