Are You Flourishing? This Global Study Has Surprising Takeaways

您过得好吗?这项全球研究带来令人惊讶的启示

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2025-05-30

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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 Little Money Are among the Happiest on Earth  Tell us what you think! Take our survey for the chance to win some SciAm swag! http://sciencequickly.com/survey  E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter.  Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Alex Sugiura with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Would you say that you're flourishing?

  • I'm guessing you probably wouldn't unless you have a particularly florid vocabulary.

  • But researchers are increasingly focused on the idea of human flourishing,

  • a multifaceted measurement that aims to take a holistic look at our collective well-being.

  • Basically, humans who are flourishing aren't just happy.