Are You Happy or Flourishing?

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There has been a lot of interest in measuring happiness or well-being. Some of the attempts are better at measuring the mood that you happen to be in at the time of responding to the survey. This article describes an effort to measure "flourishing" which is the title of a new book by an advocate of positive psychology. He has found five factors which contribute to a high flourishing score. They tend to be at the high end of the Maslow Hierarchy which many are familiar with. In a way he identifies some of the elements that Maslow only alluded to, but his work is not based on Maslow's hierarchy.