What is the Good Life? What does that mean to you and how do you achieve it?  Focus on the TED talk and the Hidden Brain

What is the Good Life? What does that mean to you and how do you achieve it?  Focus on the TED talk and the Hidden Brain show and synthesize those things into you response.


Here is a story about me.

I had a really “great job.” The money was great and position, because of the union was for life. However, I realized the work environment was toxic. People used that freedom of tenure to be mean to each other. I was pretty sad all the time. My wife noticed how distracted I was. How I started to think of work as work. In all of my years teaching, this has always been a career, not a job. I was told by a colleague that the place I worked locked us in with “Golden Handcuffs.” She said, “Almost everyone here is miserable, but they pay so much, we all stay.”

That was a punch in the face.

Within six months of that conversation, I took massive pay cut and the guarantee of a raise every year and full tenure to come to SHU.  I will never regret that decision even though I know, I will lose out on half a million dollars or more over my lifetime. I know my life will be better lived for being here.  No handcuffs on me.