Inspired by an article I read recently on another eNewsletter or blog (unfortunately I can't remember which one) I pose to you today a very simple question.
If you had to leave your home today and could only take with you those possessions that you could...
_ã–Dream _ã” nothing!_ã is one of the many things I_ã_ve heard the 14th Dalai Lama say to large audiences that seem to startle the unprepared. Just before I began an onstage conversation with him at New York Town_ã_s Hall this spring, he told me, _ã–If...
In 1881, the optimistic Irish economist Francis Edgeworth imagined a strange device called a "hedonimeter" that would be capable of "continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual." In other words, a happiness sensor.
His was just a daydream. In practice, for decades, social...
