June 2013

This Time Magazine article is relatively long but well worth the time and effort for those interested in understanding what the "pursuit of happiness" should really be about...

Happiness obviously involves focusing on and enjoying the good times.  But the reality is that life also involves "bad times". Some of these bad times are due to people doing the wrong thing...

Although success means different things to different people and can, obviously, be defined in different ways there's no doubt that considerable overlap exists between what most of us would think of as "success" and "happiness".  Accordingly, although the following article is ostensibly about "success" and although...

Learn some great lessons from the world's oldest people!  by Emina Bajra  Deep in the heart of Japan’s countryside lived the oldest person in the world.  His name was Jiroemon Kimura and last Wednesday, he died at 116. I had a chance to meet Kimura on the brink...

from Scientific American Flourishing should be the new happiness. What most pursue now ignores old wisdom and the logic of our biology. A verb capturing the required recurring effort is better than a noun describing the desired static state—by nature, not a thing we can be...