Brenna
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The Paradox of Travel: Why We Need to Leave Home to Love It
In order to more objectively see ourselves and the place we call home, we must first leave it – by physical or armchair travel.
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“Art Before Dishes”: On the Need to Prioritize Creativity
Creative downtime is a need, not a luxury. If you juggle too many responsibilities, start with this simple mantra: “art before dishes.”
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How to Reconnect with Old Friends
If we want to overcome our shyness in reaching out to old friends, it helps to understand what makes us so shy in the first place.
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Amor Fati: Can We Love Life, No Matter What?
“Amor fati,” “love in spite of everything”, and “yes to one’s own true being”: all of these help us cope with life’s greatest difficulties.
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How Much Money Do We Really Need to Be Happy?
Most of us can agree that money and happiness are related to some degree, but how much and in what way is the source of eternal debate.
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Beauty, Nature, and the Art of “Unselfing”
“Unselfing” is the term the philosopher Iris Murdoch uses to describe how both nature and art can make us better, more virtuous people.
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Does Happiness Depend on Luck?
In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle raises a difficult but salient question: Can we consider someone truly happy when we don’t yet know how their life will end? Take the example of the mythical king, Priam. Priam had it all: wealth, status, power, and over fifty sons and daughters. Then the Trojan War happened and everything…
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Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?
Maximizing and satisficing are two different ways humans look for happiness, but one tends to work better most of the time.
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The Benefits (and Pitfalls) of Travel
Travel has many perks but also hidden pitfalls as well. How much travel benefits us will depend on the type of people we are to begin with.
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Why Leisure Is More Important Than Work
“The business of living” is the opposite of being busy: how to live a life with time to think, grow and make the world better.
