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  • Published: 5 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804953457
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99

Flourish

The Art of Building Meaning, Joy and Fulfilment




A ground-breaking exploration of the groups and relationships that create well-being and success for everyone - and what we can learn from them

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.

  • Published: 5 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804953457
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99

About the author

Daniel Coyle

Daniel Coyle is the Sunday Times bestselling author of several books, including The Culture Code, The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. He lives with his wife and four children in Homer, Alaska, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

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Praise for Flourish

An eye-opening book about why certain people, projects, and places make us feel alive... With his signature combination of captivating cases, surprising science, and pristine prose, Daniel Coyle reveals how to build a more vibrant life.

Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

At a time when we’re surrounded by noise but starved for meaning, Daniel Coyle points us toward something richer. Flourish shows how attention becomes connection, connection becomes community, and community becomes a life well lived.

Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret and Drive

Combining rigorous science with unforgettable storytelling, Daniel Coyle traces connections across seemingly unrelated worlds to reveal the blueprint for building lives and communities that are rich with meaning. Flourish is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand—and cultivate—what makes life worth living.

Lisa Damour, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure

Daniel Coyle is one of my favourite writers, and in Flourish he redefines what we mean by a meaningful life. Faced with a personal loss and reckoning, he discovers a simple but profound idea: Flourishing isn’t something we find, it’s something we create. With compassion and clarity, Coyle shows that flourishing is a learnable craft

Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of Supercommunicators and The Power of Habit

In a world obsessed with checklists and productivity hacks, we’re quietly starving for something deeper. Flourish is an essential guide to tapping our capacity for deeper connections, more meaningful conversations, and finding fulfilling outcomes together. . . . A must-read.

Sheila Heen, professor at Harvard Law School and New York Times bestselling co-author of Difficult Conversations

Daniel Coyle has done it again. At last, a book that isn’t about hacking your way to a better life. If you’re successful on paper but quietly wondering, Is this it?, this book is what you’re looking for

Sarah Robb O’Hagan, author of Extreme You

I loved Flourish. Every page of Daniel Coyle’s fascinating new book—informative and spiritual all at once—tells a story that will make you sit up and say, ‘Aha!’ You’ll recognize the good stuff in yourself within many of his stories, and with new tools, you can become an even more fulfilled version of the great person you already are

Danny Meyer, restaurateur and author of Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

A wealth of wonderful insights! Anyone who’s ready to abandon the tired old win-lose models of business would be wise to lean into the lessons Flourish so abundantly demonstrates

Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses