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Social scientific research indicates that this is the wrong way around. While more space and more attractive surroundings might boost your happiness temporarily, you rapidly get used to them. Strong relationships, however, are closely correlated with lasting satisfaction and well-being. Many of us know this in theory. But being the one in the

And that concludes it. It has to. Emmie falls over, knocked out by the force of her own sentence.

To state this again. There are a set of things that excite you artistically, and there are a set of things that the public enjoys, and you are looking for something in the intersection of those two sets. You can make work that is commercially successful while still staying true to your artistic interests.

– fnnch

Feelings are mental experiences of body states. They signify physiological need (for example, hunger), tissue injury (for example, pain), optimal function (for example, well-being), threats to the organism (for example, fear or anger) or specific social interactions (for example, compassion, gratitude or love). Feelings constitute a crucial

All my life my religion had exhorted me to seek truth, which was to be obtained through that painful “good fight” process, under the premise that real knowledge of deep truths would enable me to be a happy and a good person.  But what I realized, in that flash under the Colorado sky, was that I could be perfectly happy with no knowledge about any

As an inveterate answer-wanter, it’s been a whole project to “live with questions” in every respect, especially now, when answers feel so insanely available. This goes double for lifestyle stuff like eating and working out, which are the subject of literally endless tips and rebukes and “answers” online. Embracing uncertainty and our inefficient,