By: Mike Jones The level of happiness is often entwined to our careers. At some point, the two become inseparable. Your career then should represent your authentic self. At least, that would be the case if we lived in an…
For true happiness, follow your own checklist—not society’s
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO I recently learned the term “tiger style,” which refers to a strict and demanding parent who pushes their children to pursue high levels of achievement. Supposedly, this is done to ensure the success of the children in…
Why melancholy is needed to embrace the full spectrum of human experience
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I realize now, after reading excerpts from Eric G. Wilson’s Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy that melancholy has an active quality to it. In his book Wilson argues we as a society have developed a strong…
Albert Camus explains how happiness is found in the continuous search for meaning in life.
BY: ADRIAN SMITH “There’s no referee for life,” a friend told me as he laughed at the bad luck I was having that week, “there’s no one standing there seeing to it that everything you do, good or bad, balances…
Here’s how we should really be talking about depression
BY: EMILY PLEASANCE The image of the dew droplets on the field and how the cool, crisp air felt on my face will forever be with me. If you ask me what it was about that day in high school…
33 simple activities that act as happiness-steroids (and 7 that suck the life from us)
BY: ALEX BROWN Photo By: Rob Hoffman Making love, dancing your ass off, watering a few plants—according to an invaluable study on the sources of happiness, you should be doing a lot more of these things. In fact, there are…
Here’s what happened when I decided to collect people’s stories, instead of things.
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO Two years ago, I worked in a very corporate environment where it literally took twenty minutes every morning to get into the office. I had to go through valet workers, front desk security, assistants and elevator attendants.…
It turns out that believing your willpower is unlimited is an express route to happiness and success
BY: SWIKAR OLI “Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners,” says Iago, admittedly one of Shakespeare’s more impulsive villains. But maybe that’s why he knows better than others that, if it weren’t for our willpower’s…
Don’t Get It Backwards: Harvard Professor Proves The Quickest Road To Success Is Happiness.
BY: PILGRIM The belief that success is the predecessor of happiness is the carrot-on-a-stick which dangles at the forefronts of many of our lives. The old thought reverberating in our minds, “If I could only achieve ______, I would be…
An open letter to introverts and extroverts: Can you be both?
BY: KESTREL French writer Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote “Hell is other people”, and he was fucking right. The truth is that human beings can be awful to one another. There are prisons where people have to eat each other to…