| According to Cole, the kind of effect sizes that are being found indicate that lacking eudaemonia can be as damaging as smoking or obesity. |
| Fredrickson, meanwhile, believes that a key facet of eudaemonia is connection. |
| The term eudaemonia has been taken in a large number of senses, with consequent variations in the meaning of Eudaemonism. |
| Being a parent, participating in the creative arts or even taking up exercise so that you can live to see your grandchildren may ease you toward eudaemonia, he says. |
| Fredrickson believed that hedonism would prove more favorable than eudaemonia — that discrete feelings of happiness would register on the genome more powerfully than abstract notions of meaning and purpose. |
| As with eudaemonia, though, the precise definition of a core project is malleable. |
