THE GOOD LIFE: What makes a life worth living?        

Hugh Mackay, psychologist, social researcher and writer, blogs about the basis of his wonderful new book The Good Life.

When:  Monday Evening 14 July 2014 

Time:  7.45pm. 

Where:  West Epping Uniting Church, Orchard Street and Carlingford Road, West Epping. 

His Book:  The Good Life will be available for purchase on the night. 

Everyone is welcome!

What comes to mind when someone says ‘the good life’?  Comfort and prosperity?  A chance to cash in your chips, retire to the coast and put your feet up?  A life enriched by the love of your family and friends?  A life where dreams come true?

How about a life lived for others, a life devoted to serving the neediest members of society, or a life of self-sacrifice?  Those are equally valid ways of interpreting ‘good’ – giving it a moral spin rather than an economic or emotional one.

Social researcher and psychologist Hugh Mackay has spent 40 years asking Australians about their lives, loves, hopes, ambitions, fears and passions.  In The Good Life, he asks and answers the ultimate question: What makes a life worth living?  His conclusion, drawn from his research, is provocative and passionately argued.  A good life is not measured by security, wealth, status, achievement or levels of happiness.  A good life is determined by our capacity for selflessness and our willingness to connect with those around us in a meaningful and useful way.