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The Two Flavors of Happiness

The 2 Modes of Happiness: The Past and the Present

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” --Jonathan K. Foster

Your "Experiencing-Self" lives in the present. It's the one that answers the question, how you feel? Your “Remembering-Self” lives in the past. It's the one that answers the question, "How have you been feeling?"

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Why We Make Bad Decisions – Errors in Odds and Errors in Value

“An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.” -- Edward de Bono

Would life be better if somebody could tell us the right thing to do at all possible times?

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Randy Pausch

Great Lessons Learned from Randy Pausch in the “Last Lecture”

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ” — Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture The idea of the last lecture is a hypothetical question, “if you knew were going to die, and you had one last lecture, what would you …

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Synthetic Happiness

Synthetic Happiness: You Can Be Happy No Matter What

You don't need to get what you want to be happy. You can be just as happy if you don't get what you want, as you can if you get what you want. It's not just sour grapes. You can manufacture your own happiness. It's synthetic happiness. Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, teaches us that synthetic happiness is just as real and enduring as real happiness. Dan also teaches us that our longings and worries are overblown because we have the capacity to create happiness within ourselves rather than depend on experiences.

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