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For centuries, people have sought the “secret formula” to happiness and a meaningful, long life.
Now, scientific study has discovered a simple source: giving.
Stephen Post, Ph.D., and journalist Jill Neimark have written the book Why Good Things Happen to Good People based on extensive research at universities across the United States.
With his Institute for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL) at Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland, Stephen Post has funded more than 50 studies at 44 major universities including the University of Miami, University of California at Berkeley, the American College Health Association, Catholic University of America, Stanford University and Harvard, to name just a few.
Those studies, combined with real-world examples, make an irrefutable statement: Selflessly giving makes you healthier, happier and probably will lead to a longer life. In Why Good Things Happen to Good People, authors Post and Neimark explore the studies and the people behind them, discovering the astonishingly simple “formula” and tell it in an engaging style.
Over the course of decades of study, Stephen Post developed the Love and Longevity Scale, measured in Four Domains (Family, Friends, Community and Humanity) and Ten Ways to give. This scale gives everyone useful tools in reshaping their lives.
Come discover with us this fascinating exploration of the human condition. Explore and learn Why Good Things Happen to Good People.
This Exploration is sponsored by The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
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A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner
Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen
In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.