Most efforts to help people flourish emphasize either cultivating what helps people grow or removing what hinders their growth. Meaningful Purpose Psychology proposes that lasting human flourishing requires both. The following parable illustrates why.

Why do people continue to struggle even when life improves? Meaningful Purpose Psychology suggests that flourishing depends not only on our circumstances but also on the meanings through which we interpret them. Discover how **Meaning Regeneration™** and **Meaning Lucidity™** can help individuals, organizations, and societies build healthier lives through healthier meanings.

© 2026. Luis A. Marrero, M.A., RODP. Boston Institute for Meaningful Purpose Abstract Despite unprecedented advances in psychology, management, leadership, education, medicine, organizational development, and the social sciences, many of humanity's most persistent problems remain stubbornly unresolved. Employee disengagement remains widespread. Organizational change initiatives continue to experience high failure rates. Political polarization intensifies. Mental health concer

This article explains how Meaningful Purpose Psychology deals with the Sleeper Effect and other unconscious meanings.

It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Can meaning be measured? Based on what standards?...

. .. we have to choose between what is important and what is not, what is meaningful and what is not. We have to become selective and...