Happiness Isn’t Just A Feeling. It Takes Work
Many associate happiness with wealth, prosperity, and pleasure. But Aristotle challenges humans to view happiness as an activity — striving to fulfill a purpose.
Did Aristotle Write The Original Self-Help Book?
What kind of ‘help’ are Americans seeking by spending $10 billion on self-help? According to Aristotle, humans simply want to know how to be happy, and how to be good.
How Pretending We Can Control Our Kids’ Happiness Fuels Mom Guilt
Why has motherhood joined death and religion as something that can only be joked about carefully? Exaggerating a mom’s power burdens her with more responsibility than she can fulfill.
5 Things Facebook Statuses Can Tell Us About The Pursuit Of Happiness
In case it’s hard for you to start a new year, it might help to see what our language and habits tell us about when we are happy, why we are happy, and even how to get happy.
The Feminist Life Script Has Made Many Women Miserable. Don’t Let It Sucker You
Women need and deserve their own life script, one that suits us. In order to develop one, we need to know and be told the truth about what makes women happy.
Surrogate Motherhood Does Not Create Relationships, It Tears Them Apart
Surrogacy does not serve human relationships. Surrogacy severs human relationships, which damages our shared human future.
Why Everything Is Wonderful But Nobody’s Happy, And What To Do About It
Never before in human history have so many, with so much, been so miserable. See, happiness requires the risk of unhappiness. The alternative to loneliness is the risk of heartbreak.
Mona Charen Wants You To Be Happy, And That’s Why She Advocates Sexual Sanity
Columnist Mona Charen’s new book, ‘Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense,’ offers some vital observations for younger generations looking to have a fulfilling and happy life.
Research Says Your Mid-life Crisis Is Natural. Life Gets Better After Fifty
Author and journalist Jonathan Rauch joins Ben Domenech on the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss his new book, “The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50.”
Is Self-Care Healthy Or The Ultimate In Millennial Narcissism? Yes
A new study finds a connection between millennials’ high rates of ‘self-care’ and their obsessive use of the Internet — it’s where millennials get solutions, including ones to problems they didn’t previously know they have.
No, The American Founders Were Not Libertarians
A closer look at the Founders’ thought about government shows their political philosophy that culminated in the Constitution was anything but libertarian.
What Milo Murphy Gets About The Human Potential To Overcome Adversity
It is one of the core beliefs of western culture that a man’s worth is measured, not by what happens to him, but by how well he faces it. Milo Murphy embodies this idea.
Norway Is Only The World’s Happiest Country If You Think Money Buys Happiness
In only a way that government bureaucracies seem able to do, instead of aligning their work with actual happiness data, they redefined happiness to justify the work they’re already doing.
Democratic Women’s Complaining Problem Could Be Making Them Unhappy
It seems Democratic women are twice as likely as Republican women to perceive that they’re being discriminated against, and hence, complain about it.
Women’s Top 3 Unrealistic Expectations For Men And Marriage
Our culture doesn’t encourage women to accept trade-offs. They’re taught they’re entitled to it ‘all’ and as a result expect way too much out of men and marriage.
Couples Who Stay Married Think Differently From Those Who Choose Divorce
Marriage will throw you a thousand curve balls. But it isn’t the curve balls that matter—it’s what you do with those curve balls. And what you do stems from how you think.
12 Reasons Science Shows Conservative Women Have The Best Sex
BuzzFeed reports on a new study of 19,000 people in five European countries that found ‘very right-wing’ people are the most satisfied with their sex lives. Oh, we know.
What Sexbots Teach Us About Happiness And Love
The more human we try to make sexbots, the less human the ‘relational’ ‘experience’ of sexbots will be.
6 Steps To The Perfect Wedding
The day you say ‘I do’ is about so much more than you, your anxiety, and your ability to flawlessly recreate your Pinterest board. Don’t miss the beauty inherent in the day itself.
How Facebook Makes You Miss Out On Life
We swear that tomorrow we’ll read a book instead, or maybe call an old friend. But all too often, when tomorrow arrives, we’re exhausted and burned out. Facebook deserves some blame.
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