This video is an excerpt from my interview with Scientific American on the Global Flourishing Study. You can watch the original episode here:
For the benefit of my subscribers, I am reuploading the excerpt here.
In this conversation, I join host Rachel Feltman to discuss the first wave of results from the five-year, 22-country Global Flourishing Study. We examine what it means to flourish, why flourishing differs from happiness, and how a multidimensional view of well-being helps us assess quality of life across cultures. I also reflect on the challenge of applying a single concept of flourishing to diverse cultural contexts and on practical ways people can shape their own flourishing.
Original description from Scientific American:
“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.”
Credits:
Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy, and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman and edited by Alex Sugiura, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. Theme music by Dominic Smith.
Recommended reading and links from Scientific American appear on the original video page.
