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Our successes don’t make us happy – the journey to achieving them does
By: Adrian Smith In his philosophical novel Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky says mankind “like a chess player, is interested in the process of attainting his goals, rather than the goal itself.” It’s an interesting idea, and perhaps a bit…
How education is becoming become a roadblock to freedom and success
By: Jocelyn Schwalm “…education has become one of the chief obstacles of intelligence and freedom of thought.” Bertrand Russell Society today places too much pressure on students to be high achievers, but it comes at a high cost. It is…
JK Rowling is about to drop some knowledge on you about the value of failure (Video)
BY: EDITORS Bereavement, loneliness, lofty social expectation, and bullying; through my own fractured childhood, I became aware that the fabric of life is riddled with moth holes. JK Rowling taught me that not only is inadequacy nothing to be ashamed…
Why it’s important to move at your own pace, instead of pressuring yourself to succeed
BY: ADRIAN SMITH The Passenger had been on my list of movies to watch for some time. “Jack Nicholson’s in it,” people said, so I figured I’d watch it. I love that dude, plus I’m always up late anyways. As…
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…
This 20-year-old millionaire throws NYC’s wildest illegal parties (PHOTOS)
BY: KHADIJA KHAN Most 20-year-olds are unsure about what path they should take in life, but this entrepreneur formulated a master plan to get rich at the age of 15. Meet Alex Shlaferman. He started off by making up to…
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…