Luck
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The Illusion of Being Special
None of us is free from the risk of harm or misfortune, but “cheerful pessimism” can help us better cope when misfortune strikes.
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You Should Not Be Careful Who You Love
“You should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you.”
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What Is the Relationship Between Luck and Happiness?
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…