Are You Flourishing? Take the Quiz.
The first step toward better overall well-being is to think about how you’re doing in different parts of your life. Our quiz can help.
At Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, Tyler J. VanderWeele uses this quiz to gauge a person’s overall physical, mental and emotional well-being. While he says there’s no specific score to determine if someone is definitely flourishing, the higher the score, the better. Just taking the quiz, and reflecting on the questions, can put you on a path to making positive changes. And comparing yourself to the national average — it was about 70 before the pandemic and 65 in June 2020 — can give you a sense of where you stand.
For each question, choose the answer that most reflects where you fall on a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the most positive. This quiz is just for fun and should not substitute for professional mental health advice.
How satisfied are you with life as a whole these days?
Source: This index was proposed by Tyler J. VanderWeele and first published in August 2017 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Used with permission.