Philosophers shield theories of what health and wellbeing is yet forget about what psychologists have realized approximately it, whereas psychologists find out about overall healthiness yet lack a idea of what it really is. In the great Life, Michael Bishop brings jointly those complementary investigations and proposes a robust, new concept for realizing well-being.

The community concept holds that to have health is to be "stuck" in a self-perpetuating cycle of optimistic feelings, attitudes, characteristics and accomplishments. for somebody with wellbeing and fitness, those states -- states corresponding to pleasure and contentment, optimism and adventurousness, extraversion and perseverance, robust relationships, expert good fortune and stable health and wellbeing -- construct upon and foster one another. They shape one of those optimistic causal community (PCN), in order that anyone excessive in health and wellbeing reveals herself in a favorable cycle or "groove." somebody with a lesser measure of health and wellbeing could own merely fragments of one of these community -- a few optimistic emotions, attitudes, qualities or successes, yet now not adequate to kick commence a full-blown, self-perpetuating network.

Although fresh years have visible an explosion of mental study into overall healthiness, this self-discipline, referred to as confident Psychology, has no consensus definition. The community idea presents a brand new framework for knowing optimistic Psychology. while psychologists examine correlations and causal connections between confident feelings, attitudes, characteristics, and accomplishments, they're learning the constitution of PCNs. And once they establish states that identify, increase or extinguish PCNs, they're learning the dynamics of PCNs. optimistic Psychology, then, is the research of the constitution and dynamics of confident causal networks.

The sturdy Life represents a brand new, inclusive method of the learn of wellbeing and fitness, an procedure dedicated to the proposition that gaining knowledge of the character of healthiness calls for the information and abilities of either the thinker in her armchair and the scientist in her lab. The ensuing idea offers a robust, unified beginning for destiny medical and philosophical investigations into wellbeing and fitness and the nice life.