A Life Full of Stories — Curiosity, play and new experiences that widen your world

The Problem

"Many of us settle into lives that are comfortable and even meaningful, yet feel narrow. Oishi's research shows a third kind of good life: a psychologically rich one, built from variety, play, exploration and experiences that change our perspective, at any age."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

See how psychologically rich your life is now, with Oishi's questionnaire
Add play, spontaneity and the occasional detour to ordinary weeks
Explore more widely, and make art, books and the familiar richer
Tell your story, including the hard chapters, as a rich one

The science behind it

What you'll learn

The psychologically rich life and the Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire
Narcissus or Goldmund, the ingredients of richness, and why personality is not your destiny
Playfulness, volatile reasons, the beauty of DIY and take a dozen
A treasure amidst ruins, your hero's journey, warm the old and keep the fire

What's included

Everything you get

31 tools across 8 modules, 30 of them built for this course from the book
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool, a course audio guide and a talk video for every module
Private fillable workbooks for most tools, kept on your own device; the questionnaire, which calculates your score, stays online

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For any adult, in any season of life: at work, at home, in retirement, while caring for others, studying or between jobs. Faith of any kind, and none, is equally welcome. It completes the MatteringWell4Life series after You Matter More Than You Think, Helping People Matter, Where Meaning Lives and Making Meaning Every Day.

A good life is not only a happy or a meaningful one; it can also be a rich one, full of variety, surprises and experiences that change how you see things. The fifth course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions, it begins with his Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire and follows his book: staying or going, the ingredients of a rich day, playfulness and the detour, doing it yourself, art, film, sport and books, exploration, the stories we tell, and a good life without regrets.

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Curiosity, play and new experiences that widen your world

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