Empowering well-being through science

Our Vision

Pursuit-of-Happiness.org strives to empower individuals with the scientific knowledge and life-skills needed to build happy and meaningful lives.

Our Mission

Pursuit-of-Happiness.org is a volunteer-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of well-being and depression prevention.

Our team follows the Science of Happiness as it unfolds, in the peer-reviewed work of scientists around the world.

Recent scientific discoveries show that specific life skills — such as practicing acts of kindness, active listening, and mixed exercise — have a powerful impact on our mood.

Our Philosophy

The Pursuit of Happiness is an essential human right. Both Confucius and Socrates insisted that well-being and personal growth were a major purpose of life, and a central goal of education. Thomas Jefferson and the founders of U.S. government recognized this.

More than two hundred years later, our schools and universities are still neglecting these goals. We are so busy pursuing intellectual skills that we have neglected the pursuit of happiness. We have forgotten Aristotle's warning: Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Thanks to the recent emergence of Positive Psychology and the new "Science of Happiness," a wealth of scientific information on psychological well-being is being generated. Science took us to the moon and back. Thanks to science the whole world is linked by a worldwide web. Now science is revealing surprising secrets about our well-being.

Now that a perfect storm of challenges, including the impact of rapid modernization, are sweeping the world, depression and self-harm have taken on still more urgency.