Newsletter Series
Love Learn Play
Love, Learn, Play is UEF’s simple formula for human flourishing.
This newsletter series explores Akhil Gupta’s book Love, Learn, Play: A Simple Formula for a Happier, More Meaningful Life and the three deepest longings at the heart of a flourishing life: to love and be loved, to remain open to learning and wisdom, and to playfully engage with the complexity of the world.
The series begins with the confusion around happiness itself. Across philosophy, science, and the world’s wisdom traditions, happiness is often treated as something to pursue, measure, or optimize. But UEF’s Love, Learn, Play framework points in a different direction: flourishing is not something we chase from the outside in. It grows from within as we live more fully through love, learning, and play.
3 issues
The Meaning, the Myth, and the Method: How Great Minds Attempted to Solve the Happiness Puzzle
Great minds often disagree on happiness, but their wisdom points toward one simple truth: meaning, harmony, and daily practice lead us toward flourishing.
The Happiness Paradox
A reflection on why happiness is so confusing—and how Love, Learn, Play offers a simple path from chasing happiness to cultivating it.
Introduction to Love Learn Play Series
If life is a park, consider the Love, Learn, Play framework your guidebook. I’m here to be your tour guide, but I’m a guide who wants to hear from the visitors. I want to know what you discover on these paths, so we can make the journey even more meaningful for those who follow in our footsteps. I want to learn from what you see on these trails so we can carry that wisdom forward to others.