I recently saw the new movie, Some Kind of Heaven, which was an Official Selection of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It is about the Florida retirement community known as The Villages. Here is the official trailer: Continue reading Some Kind of Heaven
Category Archives: Happiness
Arthur C. Brooks: “Three Equations for a Happy Life”
“The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic” in “The Atlantic.” I generally don’t like his work as he is a religious and political ideologue. He was president for a decade of the ultra-conservative American Enterprise Institute, and he was converted to Catholicism after he believed the Virgin Mary appeared to him. I’m not kidding. Continue reading Arthur C. Brooks: “Three Equations for a Happy Life”
Happiness and the Meaning of Life
Happiness and meaning while connected, don’t seem to be the same thing. We can imagine a paradigmatic meaningful life that is unhappy and vice versa. For example, one might seek truth, do good things, or produce beauty—paradigms of meaningful lives—and still be unhappy. Or one might have health, wealth, friends, and knowledge—things associated with happy lives—and yet live a meaningless life, Continue reading Happiness and the Meaning of Life
Summary of the Harvard Grant Study: Triumphs of Experience
William James: Once Born and Twice Born People
William James, in his famous book The Varieties of Religious Experience, drew a contrast between what he calls “once born” and the “twice born” people. Once born people appear biologically predisposed to happiness. Continue reading William James: Once Born and Twice Born People
