Ideas to change your life Making the hamster love its wheel If you ever visit Copenhagen, you’ll probably find yourself trekking out to Langelinie to the statue of The Little Mermaid, […]
Happiness Are you your job and nothing more? What do you do? I’m a mechanic; I’m a horticulturalist. It’s the first question we ask others, and the way […]
Happiness A life worth living In 2006, scientists found a quahog clam living off the coast of Iceland that, on examination, turned out to be […]
Happiness The lost art of happiness Sitting around the kitchen stove with his family, a man from Ladakh, better known as “Little Tibet” describes the tourists […]
Ideas to change your life The Media Effect Sociologists have long known that most of us are pretty nice. We work well in groups and take care of […]
Happiness 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 […]
Happiness 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”. […]
Ideas to change your life The quest for the “I” Living with a child who is learning to talk is always an amazing experience. A very special moment is when […]
Happiness Cake, sex and fame Cake, sex and fame. Their lure is strong. If something pushes our sweet, sex or status buttons, we spark right […]
Happiness Money or happiness? I know a rich man who buys properties. He decorates them, fills them with consumer goods and then leaves them […]
Ideas to change your life I think, therefore I am I The Meditation of yesterday has filled my mind with so many doubts, that it is no longer in my […]
Death On the shortness of life It is a general complaint among mankind, Paulinus, that Nature is niggardly: our allotted span is brief, and the term […]
Ideas to change your life 3 theories to take to a desert island If you had to choose just three theories to explain as much of the world as possible, which would you […]
Ideas to change your life The ladder of true understanding How well do you understand the world? Do you think you’ve got a good grasp of reality or not? Greek […]
Ideas to change your life How are you smart? The original scene: Paris, 1900‚ La Belle Epoque. The city fathers approached a talented psychologist named Alfred Binet with an […]
Ideas to change your life If I’m free, why can’t I do what I want? By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek I woke up my son Jan (9) for school, as I do every morning. He was […]
Ideas to change your life 5 Ideas: Is there a solid core that makes you you? Ideas are powerful things. Even a little one can change the way you look at the world. And the big […]
Happiness 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 […]
Happiness 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 […]
Ideas to change your life Philosophy under attack I really shouldn’t let myself watch Q&A. Don’t get me wrong, the ABC’s flagship weekly panel show is usually compelling […]
