I think it's fair to say that we all want to live a good life.
But what does that actually mean?
This is a question that has preoccupied people for centuries.
So much of philosophy and religion has been trying to figure this out.
And more recently, science has also chimed in.
So it's basically, you know,
this big question that we all contemplate from time to time is the life I'm living right now,
one that I want to live, one that's worthwhile for me to live.
This is my colleague, Richard Sema.
He is a neuroscientist and he writes the brain matters column for the post.
And it's also a question that psychologists have sort of taken from a bottom-up approach,
asking regular people, not these bearded philosophers, about, yeah, what do you find as a good life?
And basically, there's three main dimensions or paths,
I think, of to a good life that people bring up.
This is what I love about science, is it's like, what does it mean to live a good life?
Well, there are three ways.
There is an answer.
It's quite concrete.
I'm Maggie Penman.
It's Saturday, January 17.