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To a polar bear the whole world seems cold and snowy. To an ant living on a mountainside all of existence is steep and breezy. It is not that different for modern Men and Women…..the world is a large echo chamber of far left or far right views….or everyone is an avid distance runner. We […]

For those with a background in the sciences this may seem obvious. But, importantly, everything is always in change. Everything….every little constituent of every little insignificant part of every random thing in existence….everything is dynamic. Your unhappiness and your job satisfaction and your boss’s eyebrows, each one of them, is always in change. Every part

It is easy to get bogged down in the minutia of life. We all do this from time to time, but if we remain in the minutia for too long we get stuck. A good way to combat this is to every once in a while step back, way, way back and look at our

What separates those who are happy from those who are not? More than nearly anything else, holding a genuine feeling of hope in one’s body and mind makes the difference. You can be poor or suffering with disease or loss, but if you have hope you have the tools necessary to survive and prosper.  

Possibly no other single issue molds our life more than whether we feel people are basically good, or not. Scholars have spent lifetimes theorizing, arguing, defending, and attacking this question from all sides. There really is no need for any of us to spend the next decade researching whether the evidence points more convincingly towards

There are countless myths that we have heard, or used, or espoused so many times that we think they are actually true. One of the most pernicious and dangerous of these is that fairness is real; that fair exists. It really doesn’t matter your life philosophy, religion, paradigm, or orientation, fair is not real. Hurricane

There are a handful of really great ideas that seem so painfully obvious once we “get” them. Unfortunately, for many of us, these great ideas are never learned, or at a minimum are learned late in life. These ideas have to be handed down from one fortunate person to another. Often these life lessons slip

For most of us, it is all in our mind. Our happiness, sense of self-worth, future success, and even our health, is all in our mind. Literally, effectively, basically, nothing else matters or even exists. Why is the stock market up or down? Why am I lying on the couch with pink eye as I

It is dangerous and presumptive and utterly useless to judge. Most importantly, this applies to judging ourselves. I catch myself judging me all the time. It really doesn’t even mater if the judgement is putting me in a better light than is true or a dimmer light. Judging is a deceptively dangerous door to the

Most of us are not aware of this, but we are either trying to maximize happiness or minimize unhappiness, as a general orientation towards life. And, the two are very different. However, there really is no need to spend any more time than necessary playing defense in life. Life is meant to be lived on