Why I wrote The Paradox of Happiness
I wrote The Paradox of Happiness, ironically, because I felt unhappy about our current understandings of happiness. What are the common proposals? Buy this product. Get this gorgeous. Follow the seven […]
I wrote The Paradox of Happiness, ironically, because I felt unhappy about our current understandings of happiness. What are the common proposals? Buy this product. Get this gorgeous. Follow the seven […]
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired, disgusted and dismayed, at a movement in contemporary Christianity called the Prosperity Gospel. You probably know that it’s misguided, that it baptizes […]
An iconic movement blossomed in Parisian circles in the late 1860s. Artists like Claude Monet, Jean-Pierre Renoir and Edward Degas started to forge a new way of painting, opening a […]
Unlike animals that live in the moment and merely cope with the world (however smoothly), we are… drawn out of our present selves toward some more skilled future self that […]
I don’t know. That’s the bottom line, so let’s just face it now. I don’t know. And, so far as my research has taken me, nobody else does, either. But […]
Question: Isn’t making out a Christmas list kind of crass? Shouldn’t we be more concerned to give than to get at Christmastime? Answer: I agree that “it is more blessed […]
They say there are three subjects one should never raise at a dinner party: sex, religion and politics. However, since the same social protocols have not yet made it into […]
To answer this question, we need to understand what success in life is: When you are 12-months-old, success is to be able to walk. When you are 2, success is […]
Do you ever wonder about what might have been? What if I had taken that job? What if I had moved to that city or stayed in that city? What […]
[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]