Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived editor Corey L.M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt; Forward by Martin Seligman 2002

Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived is a fantastic and thorough overview of the issues currently evolving in moral psychology and positive psychology. Although this is an edited academic book, it is readable and easily applied to helping each of us understand the complex issues unfolding in the field of positive psychology.

Preeminent contemporary researchers offer contributions to our understanding of what constitutes flourishing and how to enhance our capacity to flourish. This thoughtful volume will help us understand how positive and moral emotions are fundamental to our well-being.

Of particular value is the article by Paul B. Baltes and Alexandra M. Freund titled: The Intermarriage of Wisdom and Selective Optimization With Compensation: Two Meta-Heuristics Guiding the Conduct of Life, in Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived.