Mindset
What happens in our minds will determine how we feel, what we do, and the quality of our lives — much more than what happens outside of us.
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How Thinking About Death Can Make You Happier
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
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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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What Is the Relationship Between Luck and Happiness?
In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle raises a difficult but very salient question: Can we consider someone truly happy when we don’t yet know how their life will end? He uses 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…
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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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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 Surprising Joy of Missing Out
FOMO, or the Fear Of Missing Out, has become a chronic problem for many of us. The best antidote is its opposite: the Joy of Missing Out.
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Why Regret Is (Actually) Good for Us
Regret doesn’t always have to be a negative thing. In fact, it’s a valuable tool for improving our 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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Flow: A Superpower for Every Day of Your Life
Cultivating a flow state is about far more than improving your skill at something. It contains the keys to happiness itself.
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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.
