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How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 4 – 11 Questions To Measure Your Happiness

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Normally, my existential views would automatically lead me to say “Success is anything you want it to be. It’s up to you to give your life meaning.” And that’s still true. But since we’re all flesh-and-blood biological machine human beings who cannot rise above our own humanity (not that we’d WANT to, but still) there [...]

How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 3

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Have you come to believe that pleasure and joy are for small children and simpletons? Have you ever met anyone who thought so? I used carry the opinion that any activity which primarily tapped into the human instinctual “reptilian brain”, or sometimes even the “emotional brain”, was a complete and utter waste of time. I [...]

How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 2

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

History is full of debauched slobs who drank, drugged, and bumbled their way through life, sometimes to tragic ends. Are these to be taken as examples of the “good life”? Hardly. As always, the pendulum swings, and the excessive, unrestrained indulgences of our forebears simply represent the dangers of unbridled hedonism. A touch of restraint [...]

How To Begin To Enjoy Your Life More

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

“Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily.” – Epicurus “A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci “Somewhere between cosmic freedom and responsibility to the people you love lays the answer to life.” Earlier this afternoon, as I lay on my black satin [...]

A Brief History Of You And Your Stuff

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

It’s ironic we’re looking to industrial designers to save the earth when the profession has been so instrumental in feeding society’s ravenous desire for gratuitous change. In the 1920′s, GM started tweaking the looks of its cars each year - an effort to boost sales in a saturated market. The ploy worked: other carmakers followed suit, [...]

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