Book review: U thrive: how to succeed in college (and life) by Daniel Lerner and Alan Schlechter

In U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and Life), Daniel Lerner and Alan Schlechter draw upon their popular NYU course, ‘Science of Happiness’, to offer a guide to flourishing at university and in life. But how exactly do universities promote wellbeing? Rather than breaking new ground, this book treads a rather familiar Positive Psychology path, finds Jules Evans, that neglects the difficult questions posed by ethics, philosophy, politics and culture when it comes to individual and collective flourishing. U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and Life). Daniel Lerner and Alan Schlechter. Little, Brown. 2017. Should universities promote flourishing?