Tag Archives: well-being

Seligman on happiness: authentic or by definition?

I’m almost done with Mar­tin Seligman’s well-known book of pos­i­tive psy­chol­ogy, Authen­tic Hap­pi­ness (2003). It’s been a very good read — although I was famil­iar with many of the rel­e­vant research find­ings, from my var­i­ous inter­net trav­els (and Bark­ing Up The Wrong Tree in par­tic­u­lar), Selig­man puts it all together and lays it out in

more thoughts on veganism and well-being

I was thrilled to receive this thought­ful com­ment on my last post on my vegan exper­i­ment: Com­ment from abeala I have some dis­jointed things to say in response. First of all, yes, it can def­i­nitely be dif­fi­cult to have a sig­nif­i­cant other who does not eat the same way as you. Around the time I

why being vegan can be bad for you

I had writ­ten some notes on this topic a while back, but I lost them, so here goes noth­ing. You might have guessed from the topic of this post that I was going to write about why the vegan diet is not nutri­tion­ally ade­quate. That actu­ally isn’t the main rea­son why I think being vegan