Why am I here?

• Autores: Teal Burrell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3110, 2017, págs. 30-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Burrell discusses the purpose in life. The study of how purpose influences our health largely began with Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist who survived four Nazi concentration camps. He noticed that some of his fellow prisoners were far more likely to survive than others. Today, researchers define purpose as a sense of direction in life--a long-term goal set around one's core values, that makes life worth living, and shapes daily behavior. It is a component of broader measures of subjective well-being or happiness, in which there has been a surge of interest in the past two decades. That's why, in 2012, then UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon commissioned the first ever World Happiness Report, which has been updated annually since.