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Brain Little
Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:30-18:00
Well-Being Reconsidered: Free Traits, Personal Projects and the Happiness of Pursuit
â ī¸ Important: All interested are welcome
- đ¤ Speaker: Brain Little
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:30 - 18:00
- đ Venue: Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace)
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Felicia Huppert
Abstract
One of the most enduring and consequential theories of well-being is that it is deeply influenced by stable traits of personality. In this presentation I will prod and poke at this notion of fixed traits of personality and then propose an alternative view. This perspective, a social ecological one, highlights the importance of free traits and personal projects in our personal and professional lives. Free traits, which advance our core personal projects, may enhance our well-being and the prosperity or our institutions. But unless they are managed well, they can also bring us to our knees.
Series This talk is part of the Well-being Institute Seminars series.
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