Happiness is a result of effort, but effort that’s directed towards meaningful goals, not necessarily the goal of being happy. Daniel Kahneman makes a distinction between two selves: the experiencing self and the remembering self. The experiencing…
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In 1930 Bertrand Russell published a book that he hoped would “suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer.” Whether we still suffer in the same ways…
I maintain that most of us are pretty awful at knowing how to make ourselves happy. Despite all our modern luxuries, are we really any happier than people were a few hundred or thousand years ago?…
Warning: This post may disappoint you. Take a look around the world today and you’ll see an abundance of optimism. Life is great, things will only get better, we’re all going to succeed. And we…
What do your tweets, Facebook updates, blog posts or other written media say about you? You might be able to find out, as IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, learns the ropes of psychoanalysis. Your personality is plastered all over…
“Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives,…