{jumi [affiliate] [Flourish-image]} What exactly is Flourishing, that is, human well-being? Just being happy? Surely its more -- a steady diet of sex and drugs could give that state of mind. From antiquity to the present day, many have taken a stab at answering this question and it's close relative "the meaning of life". Seligman brings to bear a prestigeous career as a leader of the field of Psychology and founder of the sub-field Positive Psychology, together with a bias toward common sense and practical application of evidence-based techniques to take healthy people from say a +1 to a +5 on a scale of well-being. Further, he highlights a surprising breadth of initiatives under way to employ such techniques more widely, and gives strong personal acknowledgements to colleagues, students, and events that have shaped Positive Psychology.

In {jumi [affiliate] [Flourish-text] ['']} one sees five principal components of Flourishing under the acronym PERMA.

• Positive Emotion (happiness and more)
• Engagement (being "in the flow", fully engaged in one's pursuits)
• Relationships (that are positive and nurturing)
• Meaning (being part of something larger than oneself)
• Achievement (sometimes just for it's own sake, without other reward)

Some strategies or techniques for growing these components are given in {jumi [affiliate] [Flourish-text] ['']} such as

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