Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Ok I hear you; you already know all this stuff about how to be happier. You know it. You have read about it in a book a long time ago or its “common sense”. You ask yourself, “why does he drone on and on about happiness? Tell me something new, something exciting”.
Simply knowing about how to be happier, […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I have not given much thought to the definition of happiness, but occasionally this question does come up in serious discussion. I was looking around the Internet and found the following webpage from the thehappyguy.com. I think it is funny that many of the so-called definitions of happiness are just opinions about what causes happiness rather than […]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Bertrand Russell wrote a book called The Conquest of Happiness. I understand that this is an amazing work. I have just requested this book from my local library. I am a big fan of Bertrand Russell, he was a very inspiring philosopher to me when I was in college.
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Your brain has a way of finding what it wants to find. Your brain will find confirming evidence for any belief that you hold to be true. This is true for any belief:
If you choose to believe in God, your brain will find confirming facts that prove the existence of God and his positive influence in your life
If you choose […]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Every time you say ‘I’ll be happy someday’, you delay happiness. You also deny happiness for yourself in that moment. You potentially deny yourself happiness in the long-term. People deny themselves happiness all the time. People usually deny themselves happiness because they have a false set of beliefs about happiness.
Your false beliefs about happiness are preventing you […]
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