EAN: 9780385551700

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

From one of our foremost psychologists a trailblazing book that turns the idea of a good life on its head and urges us to embrace the transformative power of variety and experience. For many people a good life is a stable life a comfortable life that follows a well-trodden path. This is the case for Shigehiro Oishi's father who has lived in a small mountain town in Japan for his entire life putting his family's needs above his own like his father and grandfather before him. But is a happy life or even a meaningful life also a good life? In Life in Three Dimensions Shige Oishi enters into a debate that has animated psychology since 1984 when Ed Diener (Oishi's mentor) published a paper that launched happiness studies. A rival followed in 1989 with a model of a good life that focused on purpose and meaning instead. In recent years Shige Oishi's award-winning work has proposed a third dimension to a good life: psychological richness  a concept that prioritizes curiosity exploration and a variety of experiences that help us grow as people. Life in Three Dimensions explores the shortcomings of happiness and meaning as guides to a good life pointing to complacency and regret as a "happiness trap" and narrowness and misplaced loyalty as a “meaning trap.” Psychological richness Oishi proposes  balances the other two offering insight and growth spurred by embracing uncertainty and challenges.  In a lively style drawing on a generation of psychological studies and on examples from life and literature Oishi shows how anyone can use the three core dimensions—happiness meaning and psychological richness—to build a fuller more authentic life.

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