Watch this presentation. It gives some data about how our brains synthesize happiness.
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What Steve and I determined is that the type of happiness is irrelevant. Unless you are just a really pessimistic person, you will be fairly happy whether your circumstances warrant it or not.
The key ingredient seems to be commitment. So our [...]
We will all come to the end of life. It is inevitable and we all know it. But we live as if we don’t.
As Steve put it, “Death is a sad surprise”.
My mother met her end yesterday. It was a surprise in its timing, not its inevitability. I think that is the key thing: timing. [...]
I had a lot of thinking time on a recent long drive from Missouri to Texas. One of the topics that held my attention for awhile had to do with motivations. I posed the question to myself: If I didn’t know anyone, what would I be doing?
The object was to isolate what I am doing [...]
I’ve been thinking that I want to be a more fun person, such that people would actually use the word fun to describe me. Sounds great, but this thought brings up other painful thoughts such as I’m not currently fun and the change is needed. Another thing that always comes up for me is the [...]