Unlock your full personal & career potential.
This 6-part, self-guided quest will help you discover your strengths, develop your skills, and learn what really drives and inspires you, helping you build a more meaningful career.
How Good Life
came to Exist
Hi, I’m Marc. I’m not claiming to be a self-help guru or an expert life coach. I’m just a guy trying to figure out his place in the world.
I didn’t even really intend to create Good Life. It just sort of happened.
As long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed pondering pretty heady questions… Like what’s the key to happiness, and what’s the meaning of life?
I began reading books like Man's Search For Meaning, The Tao Te Ching, Doors of Perception, and Power of Now. As I got older, I developed a curiosity for what makes people successful, especially artists and entrepreneurs.
That curiosity grew into a casual study of behavioral economics and social psychology, learning about the power of grit and a growth mindset.
Along the way, I spent 6 years professionally helping people prepare for college and business school admissions. I even wrote a 13-page thesis on the psychology of the GMAT exam after being inspired by reading Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast & Slow.
It felt good to help clients craft stories for their applications, but I always felt like I could do more. More to guide and cultivate their sense of purpose, not just their application.
A few years after that, a coworker introduced me to the Japanese concept of Ikigai. That’s when things clicked…
Like Russel Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, I began to see connections between my personal and professional experiences. And Ikigai was the glue that held them together.
The deeper I got into my research, the more the puzzle fit in my head. That’s when Good Life started to materialize.
What if I chopped up everything I learned working in college admissions, blended it with insights from authors like Kahneman, Dweck, Duckworth and Clear, and molded that within the Ikigai framework to give people an easy and actionable template to maximize their own potential?
At first, Good Life was just intended to help high school students stand out in their college applications.
Then college students and young professionals mentioned how much it helped them realize the right career direction.
It doesn't matters how old you are. My hope is that Good Life can help anyone who feels stuck in a personal or professional rut.
I like to think that what makes Good Life different from self-help programs or personality tests is that it’s not just heady theory; it’s a practical and actionable framework that anyone can easily follow.
But don’t get it twisted. You've still got to put in the work. Completing this course is like telling your navigation system where to go. It’s still up to you to drive the car.