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Daniel Cordaro

Daniel Cordaro, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of the Contentment Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the mental well-being of schools around the world. His team’s audacious goal is to significantly improve the lives of one billion children and one billion adults—25 percent of earth’s population—within one generation. Daniel is an Edmund Hillary Fellow and former faculty member at Yale University, and has spent the last decade of his career studying cross-cultural human emotions and what it means to live a flourishing life. He and his team inaugurated a new area of research on Contentment, and now he has dedicated his career to sharing scientifically-evidenced ancient wisdom with schools around the world.
Reflections of Beauty

What If You Pursued Contentment Rather Than Happiness?

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Reflections of Beauty

Contentment—the knowledge that things are okay exactly as they are, right now—is highly valued by many cultures around the world. In our fast-paced western culture, however, contentment doesn’t often make it on our wish list. Daniel Cordaro and his research team set out to learn more about how to make contentment a reality. Continue reading →