The God Gene
Book Review: The God Gene : How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes by Dean H. Hamer This book is entertaining but erratic. To start with, the title is misleading. The important parts of the book are...
View ArticleStumbling on Happiness
This book is a colorful explanation of why we are less successful at finding happiness than we expect. It shows many similarities between mistakes we make in foreseeing how happy we will be and...
View ArticleHappiness
Book Review: Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile by Daniel Nettle This book provides a fairly good, but not very novel, description of what does and does not influence happiness, the problems with...
View ArticleMoney buys happiness?
There has been a fair amount of research suggesting that beyond some low threshold, additional money does little to increase a person’s happiness. Here’s a research report (see also here) indicating...
View ArticleHappiness from the Inside Out
Book review: Happiness from the Inside Out: The Art and Science of Fulfillment by Robert Mack. This easy to read book describes many of the approaches I’ve used to make myself happier. That makes me...
View ArticleMorning Pages
I started writing morning pages a few months ago. That means writing three pages, on paper, before doing anything else [1]. I’ve only been doing this on weekends and holidays, because on weekdays I...
View ArticleAnxiety Anxiety
I’ve substantially reduced my anxiety over the past 5-10 years. Many of the important steps along that path look easy in hindsight, yet the overall goal looked sufficiently hard prospectively that I...
View ArticleBe Yourself
[An unimportant book that I read for ARC; feel free to skip this.] Book review: Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity, by Mike Robbins. This...
View ArticleDaring Greatly
Book review: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brene Brown. I almost didn’t read this because I was unimpressed by the TEDx video...
View ArticleThe Life You Can Save
Book review: The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer. This book presents some unimpressive moral claims, and some more pragmatic social advocacy that is rather impressive. The Problem It is all too...
View ArticleThe God Gene
Book Review: The God Gene : How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes by Dean H. Hamer This book is entertaining but erratic. To start with, the title is misleading. The important parts of the book are...
View ArticleStumbling on Happiness
This book is a colorful explanation of why we are less successful at finding happiness than we expect. It shows many similarities between mistakes we make in foreseeing how happy we will be and...
View ArticleHappiness
Book Review: Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile by Daniel Nettle This book provides a fairly good, but not very novel, description of what does and does not influence happiness, the problems with...
View ArticleMoney buys happiness?
There has been a fair amount of research suggesting that beyond some low threshold, additional money does little to increase a person’s happiness. Here’s a research report (see also here) indicating...
View ArticleHappiness from the Inside Out
Book review: Happiness from the Inside Out: The Art and Science of Fulfillment by Robert Mack. This easy to read book describes many of the approaches I’ve used to make myself happier. That makes me...
View ArticleMorning Pages
I started writing morning pages a few months ago. That means writing three pages, on paper, before doing anything else [1]. I’ve only been doing this on weekends and holidays, because on weekdays I...
View ArticleAnxiety Anxiety
I’ve substantially reduced my anxiety over the past 5-10 years. Many of the important steps along that path look easy in hindsight, yet the overall goal looked sufficiently hard prospectively that I...
View ArticleBe Yourself
[An unimportant book that I read for ARC; feel free to skip this.] Book review: Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity, by Mike Robbins. This...
View ArticleDaring Greatly
Book review: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brene Brown. I almost didn’t read this because I was unimpressed by the TEDx video...
View ArticleThe Life You Can Save
Book review: The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer. This book presents some unimpressive moral claims, and some more pragmatic social advocacy that is rather impressive. The Problem It is all too...
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