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Give me your money or your happiness

You money or your life?

    March 28, 1948. Sunday night on NBC radio. Jack Benny is walking home from a party with Ronald Colman’s Oscar… 

    The history of happiness

    The history of happiness

      My son called from university to tell me he’d decided to drop college because it isn’t making him happy. He… 

      Sisyphus abstract art. What is happiness?

      A brief history of happiness

        We’ve spent roughly 2,500 years systematically misunderstanding what happiness actually is, and the we’re still getting it wrong, only now… 

        The happiness paradox and why you should not track your happiness

        Don’t track your happiness

          The happiness tracking app promised to change my life. Three months later, I had beautiful graphs showing my happiness peaks… 

          What is happiness?

          What is happiness?

            Happiness. That deceptively simple word has launched a thousand ships and sold a million self-help books. We’ve meditated with monks,…