Created with Sketch. Martin Seligman developed the PERMA theory of well-being to articulate the five elements that allow people to flourish. They are positive emotion, engagement, relationships ...
Living on purpose: Finding personal and professional meaning in the pursuit of well-being
Proactively maintaining well-being should involve regularly examining how youre really doing, what fulfils you, and what may need to pivot.
Aspen Ideas: Was bin Laden happy?
He was a making a dramatic point about the complexities of personal happiness. By Seligman’s own PERMA equation, bin Laden was a happy man. He was filled with Positive emotion. He was fully Engaged.
Challenging the Apartheids of Knowledge in Higher Education through Social Innovation
By making use of PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, relationship, meaning-making and accomplishment), people can contribute to a positive society (Seligman, ...