14 Jun 2025

What makes a flourishing life?

From Saturday Morning, 11:38 am on 14 June 2025
Tyler VanderWeele.

Tyler VanderWeele. Photo: Supplied / Tyler VanderWeele

A question everyone must ask themselves at some point: what does a life well lived look like? 

Tyler J. VanderWeele is co-director of the five-year Global Flourishing Study of about 200,000 people from more than 20 countries spanning every continent - the largest and most conclusive study of this kind. 

So how do a range of variables, including economic, religious and psychological affect well-being and happiness, and how are they measured to give a flourishing score? 

Tyler shares his research with Susie.

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