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“How Can I Find Happiness In Life?” That’s one of the questions on a pamphlet I found on my door the other day. As you might suspect from the types of pamphlets left on your own doors (minus the ones for auto mechanic discounts, pizzas, and carpet cleaning), this one was offering an afterlife in which [...]

This week I thought we’d ponder some of the thoughts of a popular happiness promoter, Marci Shimoff. She had a role in the film The Secret, btw, which regardless of its dubious metaphysical perspectives can never be accused of being pessimistic. Here’s a list of incredibly optimistic teachings gleaned from The Secret’s gurus. They are really [...]

Here’s a pretty comprehensive article on the idea of happiness throughout the ages: Pursuing Happiness: The New Yorker. I found the following quotations particularly interesting. We have been hardwired to emphasize the negative, and, for most of human history, there has been a lot of the negative to emphasize. Hobbes’s description of life in the [...]

I recently listened to a podcast interview with Eric Weiner, who wrote an interesting book called The Geography of Bliss. Rather than critique the various ideas about happiness that he and Will Wilkinson discussed, I thought I’d recommend you read a list of people’s descriptions of favorite places for experiencing a profound sense of bliss: Your Happiest [...]

Not sure where I came across this headline recently: Happiness is paying your taxes, study suggests The study is over a year old, but the ideas in it (like most ideas) are timeless. I suppose we should note at the outset that this research on the subject comes from Oregon, a place not averse to taxing [...]