Aristotle's "good life" boiled down into a simple formula:
Know your "signature strengths" and "use these strengths every day in the main realms of your life to bring abundant gratification and authentic happiness."
The (obvious!) fact that the more time we spend doing what we are good at, the more pleasure we experience in our lives. The trick, of course, is to follow Socrates' wisdom to truly "know ourselves" and then properly apply that knowledge to our daily lives.
Discover your "signature strengths" and create a life and work environment that allows you to utilize these skills more often.
As we gain more and more self-awareness, it becomes that much easier to create a life that allows us to express ourselves most fully--and experience the most happiness.
Know the differences between jobs vs. careers vs. callings. There are differences between knowing and utilizing your strengths to create a life in which you are pursuing your calling rather than just performing a job that pays your bills or a career that provides the quickly fleeting satisfaction of job advancement. “Good stuff.”
Many of us have sensed intuitively: the fact that "Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy." Corporations that promote the attainment of satisfaction for their employees (achieved by enabling them to do what they do best) will overtake corporations that rely on monetary reward.
What are your strengths? How are you building your life around them?
