Happiness, and all that crap
The question of happiness and how to get it is endlessly entertaining. It’s one of the few topics on which we are all experts,…
Happiness
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Happiness is hard to find
I have been happy. I hope to be happy again. But I am yet to feel something I’d call “happiness”. As a noun, it…
Cake, sex and fame
Cake, sex and fame. Their lure is strong. If something pushes our sweet, sex or status buttons, we spark right up. Why? Because, ostensibly,…
Money or happiness?
I know a rich man who buys properties. He decorates them, fills them with consumer goods and then leaves them unattended for most of…
Pleasure spots
By George Orwell Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist and describing the pleasure…
Achieving good work
If I were to ask people around the world what they admire, I am confident that high on the list would be two items:…
Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?
The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy…
Shorts: why do it in prison?
“Why do it in prison? Well, why do it anywhere? I do it in prison because I was asked, and I carry on because…
Shorts: Epictetus and external events
Think about what usually makes you angry, frustrated, anxious; most likely it has something to do with external events that are beyond your control.…
