Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life - Couverture souple

Oishi, Shigehiro

 
9780385551700: Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
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ISBN 10 : 0385551703 ISBN 13 : 9780385551700
Editeur : Doubleday, 2025

Synopsis

From one of our foremost psychologists, a trailblazing book that turns the idea of a good life on its head and urges us to embrace the transformative power of variety and experience.

For many people, a good life is a stable life, a comfortable life that follows a well-trodden path. This is the case for Shigehiro Oishi's father, who has lived in a small mountain town in Japan for his entire life, putting his family's needs above his own, like his father and grandfather before him. But is a happy life, or even a meaningful life, also a good life?

In Life in Three Dimensions, Shige Oishi enters into a debate that has animated psychology since 1984, when Ed Diener (Oishi's mentor) published a paper that launched happiness studies. A rival followed in 1989 with a model of a good life that focused on purpose and meaning instead. In recent years, Shige Oishi's award-winning work has proposed a third dimension to a good life: psychological richness, a concept that prioritizes curiosity, exploration, and a variety of experiences that help us grow as people.

Life in Three Dimensions explores the shortcomings of happiness and meaning as guides to a good life, pointing to complacency and regret as a "happiness trap" and narrowness and misplaced loyalty as a “meaning trap.” Psychological richness, Oishi proposes, balances the other two, offering insight and growth spurred by embracing uncertainty and challenges. 

In a lively style, drawing on a generation of psychological studies and on examples from life and literature, Oishi shows how anyone can use the three core dimensions—happiness, meaning, and psychological richness—to build a fuller, more authentic life.

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À propos de l?auteur

SHIGEHIRO OISHI is the Marshall Field IV professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. He is one of the foremost authorities on happiness, meaning, and culture. He is the author of The Psychological Wealth of Nations, and his research has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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Éditeur
Doubleday
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0385551703
ISBN 13 
9780385551700
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
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9780385550390: Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life

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ISBN 10 :  0385550391 ISBN 13 :  9780385550390
Editeur : Doubleday, 2025
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