Last month, Martin Seligman published Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress. For those of us at Human Flourishing, and many of our friends at Heroic, this is exciting news. Seligman helped establish the field of positive psychology, and his work has profoundly shaped how we understand human well-being and what makes a good life. [...]

Heroic just published a new Philosopher’s Note on Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia. It takes about 20 minutes to read, and it condenses the heart of the book. I’d like you to read it this week.Read the Philosopher's Note Michael Balchan, [...]

Human Flourishing is honored to announce that we are partnering with Jason Viyar to bring his forthcoming book, The Psychological Millionaire, into the world. The book began as Jason's Master of Applied Positive Psychology capstone at the University of Pennsylvania and grew from a question that has shaped much of his life: who [...]

I pride myself on being open-minded, and I avoid conflict wherever I can. I don't go looking for an argument, and when one catches me off-guard I feel an actual jolt of panic. I'm not good at articulating myself on the spot — small talk alone can set it off. I grew up somewhere that [...]

Dale Carnegie wrote the manual on human influence in 1936. Three of his ideas still have something to teach us, and something to offer a divided world. Part 3 of 3 The previous two issues explored respect — why disrespect is the surest way to shut a conversation down, how respect is earned through consistent [...]

How economic interdependence builds the peace that politics cannot. There is a principle hiding in plain sight: countries that trade with each other rarely go to war with each other. A new essay from HumanProgress.org by Walker Wright walks through the evidence, and the underlying scholarship is more consistent than most public conversation about war [...]