Flourish

The Hidden Structure of a Fulfilling Life

De: Daniel Coyle

Brought to you by Penguin.

We all want to flourish. We want to create harmony, well-being and joy in our lives and those around us. The question is, how?

Daniel Coyle has spent the last six years researching and visiting 'holistic hotbeds': groups, teams, businesses, and communities which have, accidentally or on purpose, created deep, thriving relationships that generate high levels of shared success and well-being. From a small town in Vermont that has produced 11 Olympians over the past 40 years—where most of the Olympians return to live and work after their athletic careers are over—to a Michigan deli that accidentally grew into a $70 million business. And from a grassroots organization in an impoverished Kenyan settlement that has produced Ivy League students, to a successful multi-billion dollar company that functions like an extended family.

Coyle discovered that all these groups flourish using three skills, which form the three parts of this book. In Skill 1—The Surrendering—we'll learn about our brain's holistic-awareness system and how to use it to create connection and belonging. In Skill 2—The Unleashing—we'll learn how creating small instabilities can ignite energy, ownership, and self-organizing action toward a shared horizon. In Skill 3—The Deep Fun—we'll learn how audacious experiments can generate new versions of yourself and your group.

The overarching idea is that flourishing is created by a matrix of quiet but powerful group interactions that create interdependence, energy and growth. Flourishing isn't a puzzle you solve alone; it's a set of living relationships that generate the shared capability to shape your future, together.

© Daniel Coyle 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025