Life Principles
We can’t live a meaningful life if we don’t know which values and principles are most important. The best life principles are tested by time and experience.
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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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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.
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Braving the Wilderness: How to Live to Yourself
To live to yourself means doing the hard but rewarding work of choosing your own values and then living consistently by them.
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Why We Need Philosophy (More Than Ever)
Too many people think of philosophy as something esoteric. In reality, we need philosophy to deal with everyday questions and problems.
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The Biggest Regret in Life (For Most of Us)
For most of us, our biggest regret in life won’t be what we did, but what we failed to do.
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Why We Can’t Predict What Will Make Us Happy
Impact bias, presentism, and other factors like loss aversion all play a role in warping our view of what will actually make us happy in life.
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The Forgotten Virtue of Patience
We’ve all been told that “patience is a virtue,” but do we understand just how powerful patience can be in our hectic 21st-century lives?
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Should You Live a “Psychologically Rich” Life?
The choice between novelty, meaning, and comfort may be a false one
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3 Ancient Solutions to the Problem of Happiness
The Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans each offer us timeless insight on how to be happy.
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4 Reasons to Not Get Married
While no one can tell you who to marry (or whether to get married at all), here are four good reasons why you _shouldn’t_ get married.
