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April 2025

Don't Overthink the Meaning of Your Life
I'm an existential psychologist, so unsurprisingly, I spend a lot of time thinking about meaning in life and other big questions.
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Historical Progress Unites, Guides, and Inspires a Grateful America
In previous newsletters, I discussed ways in which Americans are divided in their expectations for the future, both in their general views about the…
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Debate Training Can Help You Achieve Leadership Goals
Leadership development is big business.
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March 2025

Our Kindness Has More Impact Than We Realize
Most of us understand the value of kindness.
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Progress, Growth, and Abundance Should be a Non-Partisan Movement
A new book titled Abundance from two progressive journalists, Ezra Klein of the New York Times and Derek Thompson of the Atlantic, is getting a lot of…
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Three Psychological Capacities that Empower Human Agency
I grew up doing martial arts, and one of the best lessons my instructor taught his students is to not talk in ways that create mental barriers to…
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When Being Dissatisfied with Our Lives is Good For Us and Humanity
Both psychologists and the general public tend to conceptualize flourishing in terms of current psychological states and self-evaluations.
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February 2025

Does Our View of the Past Shape Our Vision of the Future?
National surveys, including ones from our team at Archbridge Institute's Human Flourishing Lab, reveal many Americans hold a bleak outlook regarding the…
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Why We Need a Psychology of Progress
For this week's newsletter, I want to share an article I wrote for The Progress Network two years ago on why I think we need a psychology of progress.
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We Need to Expand Our View of Societal Contribution
In my last newsletter, I shared the Human Flourishing Lab's latest Progress Pulse survey which revealed an encouraging picture: most American adults…
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