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Life is chock full of reinforcing loops. Like most things, this is neither inherently good nor bad. The real trick comes in learning what these cycles are in our lives and trying to nudge ourselves towards the positive reinforcing loops and away from the negative ones. As with many things, there is a good deal […]

Managing and improving and walking down the path is not always forward. Some nights we go to sleep seemingly further away from where we wanted to get to than we started that morning. It is vitally important to remember that all is not lost. Life is not one of those game shows where once you

We know that if we grow the healthy thoughts and actions in our lives we will benefit. Similarly, if we learn to reexamine and redirect the bad we also help ourselves a lot. We may need to start with simply resisting or rejecting the bad, which is a good start, but reevaluating and redirecting the

Forget median family household incomes and life expectancies around the world. Forget for a moment that billions of people live without food or shelter security. For those of us fortunate enough to be able to have the time, money, and ability to read this our lives are tough as well. We do not need to

Everything is an illusion, you and me, cars and mushrooms, death and happiness. There is not one reality, there is yours and mine, those for today and here and tomorrow and there. We live essentially at zero energy, zero time, and zero distance; or we live at infinite energy, infinite time, and infinite distance….it is

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