Psychology and the Good Life

Joe Weaver, Ph.D.
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Humans have been writing about the best way to live for over 5,000 years across religion, philosophy, and now science. This podcast explores ideas about living and how science can help guide our choices.

  1. The Best is Yet to Come

    08/11/2025

    The Best is Yet to Come

    This is it! The final episode! Congrats to all! In the last episode, we look back and we look forward to life lived well.

    11 min
  2. Feeling the Good Life

    08/11/2025

    Feeling the Good Life

    In our last week, we're talking about feelings and emotions and how they connect with the good life.

    44 min
  3. Strategies for Success

    08/04/2025

    Strategies for Success

    We're wrapping up our week on achievement with some strategies for successful goal striving.

    18 min
  4. Need to Achieve

    08/04/2025

    Need to Achieve

    In this episode, we discuss our need to achieve and what it means for the good life and I interview Dr. Josh Ode about goals, achievement, and identity in sports.

    52 min
  5. Engage!

    07/28/2025

    Engage!

    In this episode, we're getting into the flow and making things happen! It's time to engage the good life!

    27 min
  6. Engaging the Good Life

    07/28/2025

    Engaging the Good Life

    "The good life is not for the faint hearted" but it is for the intrepid, for those who engage it. We'll discuss the benefits of engagement in the good life in this episode.

    32 min
  7. Purposeful Pivots

    07/21/2025

    Purposeful Pivots

    We are continuing to talk about about meaning and purpose in the good life. In this episode, I speak with a non-traditional student who reflects on the pivots she's made in her career and life to follow her good life.

    49 min
  8. Mental Health and Meaning

    07/21/2025

    Mental Health and Meaning

    In our first episode focusing on meaning and the good life, I speak with Dr. Travis Pashak about clinical psychology, existentialism, meaning making, and fruit.

    38 min
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Humans have been writing about the best way to live for over 5,000 years across religion, philosophy, and now science. This podcast explores ideas about living and how science can help guide our choices.

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