Benefitting Friends and Idealized Theories of...

Standard forms of desire-based theories of well-being claim that what is better for you is what you prefer. But how shall we decide whether one life is better for you than another when your preferences change across these lives? Standard forms of desire-based theories of well-bei ...  Show more

The aim of this paper is to provide some concrete guidelines for understanding and measuring the well-being of individuals affected by autism. I discuss the use of psychometric tests to understand and measure the well-being of autists. There is an astounding lack of both empirica ...  Show more

Why You Must Live Your Best Life Now A few years ago, I heard that Super Markets were considering changing expiration dates on food. They replaced it with "Best if Used By."  Maybe you should treat your life the same? I've long known that everything has an expiration date. Nothin ...  Show more

你思考过人生的意义吗？在我们面临人生的一些抉择时，往往会感到迷惘，这时候免不了要想想，自己这一生所追求的究竟是什么，财富、感情、地位、名声、健康，到底什么才是最重要的？这一课就让我们来看看，是什么引起了关于这个问题的讨论。 Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2619

What Life Used to Be Like Can you remember when you filled your thoughts with dreams and ambitions?   That’s how most of us live our early lives - until the real world splits into two distinct periods: 1) BEFORE life gets in the way. Anything IS possible. It’s a beautiful time wh ...  Show more

We tend to think that once we get to a certain place in life, everything just gets all dreamy. And, that makes us sometimes hold those who we look to as teachers and leaders to a different standard. But, what if we're all just in it together? What if life happens, humanity an ...