What it takes to Really Improve: A Meaningful Purpose Psychology Perspective

Meaningful Purpose Psychology came to being as the result of one fundamental problem:  Why is it that despite the availability of answers, humanity’s most pressing problems persist? For instance, reading the news on my mobile this morning (January 6, 2014) I read a well-written article published by Katie Zezima and Samantha Henry, from the Associated…

A Peaceful 2014 through Meaningful Purpose Psychology

Shouldn’t the survival of humanity too be contingent on whether or not men arrive at a common denominator of meaning? Shouldn’t it be contingent on whether or not people, and peoples, find a common meaning, become united in a common will to a common meaning? Viktor E. Frankl, The Unheard Cry for Meaning. On my…

“Peace on Earth” and Meaningful Purpose Psychology

An optimist and a pessimist were asked to briefly explain the benefit of the social sciences. The optimist gave for an answer, “To help humans get along.” The pessimist replied, “To prevent humans from killing one another”. Now that many are celebrating the holiday season, I believe it is appropriate to write a blog on the…

What is Meaningful? And why knowing matters?

“…subjective well-being research is now showing that in all cultures, and even from infancy, people are drawn to pro-social behavior, and that they are happier when they act pro-socially.” ~ United Nations Happiness Report 2017 In my previous blog I wrote: “After many years of research, including reading what seemed like an endless list of…

A Psychological Definition for “Successful Living”

“Successful living”. Those two words are so often (mis) used that for many the two combined have become a cynic’s oxymoron. “When has living successfully been a reality for the many?” I‘ve heard. And such is a fair question. That is why years back I turned to psychology to learn what the field had to…

Who Benefits Reading “The Path to a Meaningful Purpose”?

People who will most benefit from reading ‘The Path to a Meaningful Purpose‘ are those who hunger for answers to four fundamental existential questions: Who am I? What matters in life? What is meaningful and meaningless? What is my life purpose? Why am I here? How do I successfully achieve my life purpose? “The Path…

Why Should “Meaningful Purpose” Concern You?

This blog answers: What is the key message of “The Path to a Meaningful Purpose: Psychological Foundations of Logoteleology”? What do readers take away from the book? As I explained in a previous blog, logoteleology or meaningful purpose psychology is an optimistic and positive method that challenges the notion that personal and social self-inflicted suffering…