Flourishing in conjunction with Fate

[gwendally]

I read two books over Christmas break. One was a series of short stories by Ted Chiang. I highly recommend it. Each was a provocative idea that he fleshed out in big-idea format. One of them, "The Story of Your Life", became the movie "Arrival". A couple of others would be good foundations for movies, too: he creates a world but leaves it largely

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[belleweather]

PERMA seems like an interesting approach, especially given the thinking I'm doing about work -- my PER hasn't changed much, but the MA has declined since I started working at my current job, and that's made a major difference in my overall feelings of happiness.

I'll have to check out the book. :)

[lab_jazz]

One was a series of short stories by Ted Chiang.

I have this book but I haven't got around to reading it as yet.
I saw "Arrival" at the cinema. While I was watching it I didn't have a clue what was going on. But as I stood up to leave the cinema I had an epiphany about what it was all about