Education and Purpose

Check out this video of Sir Ken Robinson talking about education, creativity, and purpose driven lives. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.h...

Talent as an Incubator of Strengths

            Recently, on a long car trip, my wife and I were discussing the role of talents in relation to strengths. Stefanie was wondering how one might be able to use talents as a way to further develop our characteristic strengths. In our conversation she hit on an important concept that I call the Incubator Effect. This idea explains how we can use our areas of talent as a launching pad for our strengths. Think of your areas of talent as Petri dishes where you can...

A Recap on Happiness

I would feel remiss if I did not reiterate what happiness is. While I have discussed the outline for happiness and what it is not, I think that more clarification is needed. Previously I have described happiness as the pursuit of meaning accompanied by virtuous pleasure. As I have demonstrated, popular belief is that happiness is the exact opposite. Hollywood and the media often argue implicitly and explicitly that happiness is nothing more than the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure in its plethora of variations. Thus the...