These posts cover how we make ourselves happy, and how to combat unhappiness.
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Walking became more than an excuse for physical exercise. It became an effortless and very natural exercise in meditation. And it proved a soothing ritual in helping me prepare to face, and then face and process the exodus of my father from this life.
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Fairness is relative and situational, which means that what we think is fair changes over time and changes depending on who is doing the comparing.
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The basic rules of competition apply in many areas of life beyond buying goods and services.
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When it comes to achieving good health, people have followed physical hygiene practices for over a century with good results, dietary hygiene practices for half that time with decidedly mixed results, and mental hygiene practices for a few decades with promising results.
Paradise Found
No matter what we are doing, we are now typically simultaneously consuming media in some form.
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It took me a couple decades at work to uncover the great risk in prioritizing getting more things done
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Today I'm going to say go ahead and be bigger in every way, with just one little caveat (to come below).
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When we strive and struggle, when we push beyond our comfort zones, we learn what we can do. In contrast, we do not learn any useful limits sitting on our couches.
Paradise Found
Hey airlines, newsflash: we only fly when we have absolutely no alternative. You make the U.S. Postal Service look well run.
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Let’s call the first group the Shit Happens adherents and the other group I Make Things Happen. Do you count yourself among either group? Here’s how to tell.
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Our very attempts to escape the noise constantly around us have led to ever-escalating calls for our attention.
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If you want to be happy in life, there is only one comparison you should ever make.