A teacher
What helps a person remain curious, persist through difficulty, and become more capable over time?
The Human Capacity Project
An ongoing series of conversations about what helps us flourish and how human capacities develop.
Which capacities increase human flourishing?
How can we cultivate them?
The same question looks different from every field.
People develop practical knowledge through the work they do. The project asks what each perspective can see and what another may overlook.
A physician
What do years of caring for people reveal about trust, responsibility, recovery, and the conditions that support life?
An artist
What makes attention, imagination, discipline, and expression possible, and how are those capacities kept alive?
The journal
Conversations and field notes.
Ideas from people whose work gives them a distinct view of how human beings grow, adapt, and flourish.
Why compare what different fields know about flourishing?
No single profession or tradition sees the whole of human development. The value emerges when practical knowledge is placed in conversation.