“Spoiler alert: The good life is a complicated life. For everybody. The good life is joyful… and challenging. Full of love, but also pain. And it never strictly happens; instead, the good life unfolds, through time. It is a process. It includes turmoil, calm, lightness, burdens, struggles, achievements, setbacks, leaps forward, and terrible falls. And of course, the good life always ends in death.”
~ Robert Waldinger
Being with those we love and who love us are important and enriches our lives with experience utility; success, education, and having income are important ways we perceive life as having evaluative utility. Daniel Kahneman, who spent a lifetime understanding decision making, answers the question, “what does it take to have a good story.” Give a listen to the entire podcast and read the article in the New York Times about this Nobel Laureates’ remarkable life, and end of life decision.
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de Lazari-Radek, K., & Singer, P. (2025, April 14). There’s a lesson to learn from Daniel Kahneman’s death. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/daniel-kahneman-death-suicide.html
de Lazari-Radek, K., & Singer, P. (Hosts). (2024, May 23). Daniel Kahneman: Evaluating the human condition (Season 1, Episode 2) Audio podcast episode. In Lives Well Lived. Acast.
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