Week 1: Flourishing
Discover Your Flourishing Potential
Take our quiz to explore different dimensions of flourishing and understand what it means to lead a fulfilling life. This quiz will challenge your knowledge on important concepts such as awareness, meditation, and the effects of negative events.
- 10 thought-provoking questions
- Learn about hedonic and eudaemonic approaches to flourishing
- Understand the importance of mindfulness and meditation
Which of these is NOT one of the main dimensions of our model of flourishing?
Integration
Insight
Personality
Awareness
Connection
Awareness is an important element in flourishing because it enables us to...
have even more thoughts, feeling and emotions than previously.
withdraw the mind inward to our "happy place."
notice (without reactivity or judgment) our emotions, biases, assumptions and so on.
focus intently on something so as to block out unpleasant thoughts.
Which of these takes a "hedonic" approach to flourishing?
Flourishing means something more than pleasure, such that one can still flourish in the face of suffering.
Flourishing is all about feeling pleasure.
Flourishing only comes through pain.
Flourishing is impossible.
Which of these would be suitable to an "eudaemonic" approach to flourishing?
Flourishing is impossible.
Flourishing means that one can still be leading a meaningful life even in the face of suffering.
Flourishing is all about feel pleasure.
Flourishing is all about money and power.
In practicing seated meditation...
Noticing is what's important - not feeling a particular way
It is important to avoid thinking negative thoughts
One must force the mind to focus.
Distraction should never happen.
In practicing seated meditation, mind wandering is....
Unusual and to be avoided.
none of the other answers are correct.
Normal -- it happens to everyone.
A sign that one is not doing the practice correctly.
The effects of contemplative practices can occur relatively quickly. For example, one study has shown that compassion practice can lead to more prosocial behavior after...
two weeks.
two minutes.
two months.
two years.
In a recovery from negative events, the suffering or discomfort that comes with the negative event in most people is due to...
their increased response to the negative event (such as heat) in the moment at it occurs.
the intensity of the stimulus (such as heat).
none of the other answers are correct.
the inability to return to baseline quickly.
According to the World Happiness Report, what has happened to the general level of happiness in the United States in the last ten years?
It has declined significantly.
No one knows -- it was not measured in any way.
It has increased significantly.
It has remained the same.
More than one hundred years ago, a well-known psychologist said that an education that improved "the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention" would be "the education par excelence." Who said this?
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
William James
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