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Continue reading →: The Rubik’s Cube Principle
In order to solve a Rubik’s Cube, at the point that you feel a sense of success and progress, you have to do something that is perceived to be undoing everything you’ve achieved so far.
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Continue reading →: Happiness is what you missed because you were busy searching for happiness.
If happyism has taught us anything, it’s that happiness is not just something you one day ‘reach’ and you’re there. You can only experience contentment for something that is happening to you. This means that it is not something you feel for something in the future or the past. A…
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Continue reading →: Search: Greatness
When we think about dreams, we’re thinking about what it is we want- as an end goal. But why do we focus so much on the thing we cannot control, rather than the aspects that we can? I think I have been obsessed with the idea of greatness my entire…
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Continue reading →: Blame the Perspective
One of the greatest powers we have in our lives is to accept blame. As someone who strives to never feel that I am being controlled or taken advantage of, accepting blame can feel like you’re letting someone off for wronging you when you know that you’re not in the…
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Continue reading →: Over-Thinking Thirty
When I turned 21 I wrote an article about what I had learned in my first one and twenty years. The only part of it I really remember is an anecdote about how sitting on the floor of a train would no longer be acceptable as I was an ‘adult’…
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The art of happyism
The Happyist
When we are happy we are suffering from a disturbance in our emotional and cognitive functioning, it just so happens that we’ve decided it’s one we’re OK with…
The art of happyism 