If I were to ask people around the world what they admire, I am confident that high on the list would be two items: 1) individuals who do good work; and 2) a society that takes care of basic needs, functions well, and embodies admirable values. If you doubt this prediction, you are welcome to do the study.
Almost twenty years ago, my fellow psychologists, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, and I undertook a study along these lines. We were spurred by two events. For one thing, we had ...
