3 Life Lessons From ‘The Good Place’
What can we learn from others? What defines good and evil? What’s the meaning of life? The Good Place explores all of this and more.
The Good Place gave us four seasons of dynamic characters, plot twists, and witty one-liners. Though a light-hearted comedy, the show also provided valuable real-life lessons that can help us maintain happiness and health.
The Good Place begins when Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) dies in a freak accident and ends up in The Good Place — where all good-natured, virtuous humans spend their afterlife. Eleanor first encounters Michael (Ted Danson), who claims to be a good place architect. He describes The Good Place as a series of distinct neighborhoods containing specifically selected people who “blend together to a blissful harmonic balance.” The first plot twist: Eleanor was not a good person in life and quickly realizes she doesn’t belong there.
Lesson #1: Connecting with people who are different from you can make you a better person.
Upon entering The Good Place, everyone has access to the all-knowing and powerful being, Janet, who appears whenever people call her name and produces for them whatever they wish. Good Place…
