Another aspect of extraversion that might be related to psychological richness is energy. Extraverts tend to be more energetic than introverts. The more energy one has, the more activities one can engage in. One study, for instance, found that extraverts were involved with more college activities, such as intramural athletics, campus clubs, and ser

Novelty: there’s something different from the same old, same old. Diversity: a wide range of attention and emotion is deployed. Challenge: life is more difficult and complex than usual. Memorable: life is vivid. Above all, you learn something new. You gain some new perspective.

First, we found some common factors associated with all three aspects of well-being. It turned out that doing something new, eating something new, or meeting someone new enhanced not only psychological richness but also happiness and meaning. That

Like Raymond Carver, Jane Kenyon writes about her routines in her poem “Otherwise.” She gets out of bed, eats breakfast, has lunch, takes a nap, eats dinner, and sleeps. Nothing special, except that she might have been unable to get out of bed, unable to do all the routines.

that psychologically rich experiences involve not only novelty but also intensity, complexity, and a change in perspective.

hole. As she read more about Buddhist philosophy, she noticed a similarity in its ideas to David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, and she began to wonder if there were Eastern roots in the Western Enlightenment. So began her quest to link Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit missionary to Tibet who wrote about Buddhism in 1728, with David Hume, who complete

Goldmund’s life is hard, but spontaneous, creative, and unpredictable: a psychologically rich life.

Hermann Hesse, one of the most influential German novelists of the twentieth century and the 1946 Nobel laureate, depicted memorable characters struggling to find a path to the good life in several novels. Narcissus and Goldmund is one of the most popular Hesse novels, which also became a feature film in 2020. Narcissus, one of the title characters

the pressure to be happy. Most of us feel that way once in a while. If you feel like you haven’t made any meaningful difference in the world, consider that you could achieve meaning through devotion to a certain cause, starting out small in your neighborhood. Take your time, and you will make a difference in the long run. The second part of the mea