Why does it seem that some people are prone to mental illness? The reason is that these people tend to live in their story. Stories are prone to inaccuracies that produce fear, sadness and anger.
Apparently every person has at least two thinking styles, one is a story-based style and the other is a moment-to-moment living style which is […]

In the last post, I described a thought experiment that helped us think about whether happiness was just pleasure. In today’s post I want modify the thought experiment so that we can focus on whether happiness is success.
Let me proceed…
Imagine that I am a brilliant scientist and I have invited you to participate in one of my laboratory […]

Imagine that I am a brilliant scientist and I have invited you to participate in one of my laboratory experiments. I escort you to my laboratory and show you all my scientific equipment.
In front of us is my latest experiment, it looks like a telephone booth with a small chair inside.
I explain to you that the telephone […]

If your purpose is to be happy then you must regulate how you consume news.  
News is a problem because these days news is more about conflict, and less about informing and teaching people about current events.
I have a few tips:

Stay away from 24-hour news channels. Sometimes there is no news, so reporters spend lots of time speculating about […]

Consider this metaphor, imagine above your head is a rectangular projector screen. The projector screen is about 1 foot tall by 4 feet wide. Imagine that images are appearing on one side of the screen, and then moving fluidly across the screen to the other side.
These images on the screen represent the thoughts that enter your […]