Should we stop moaning?
Little existential sighs only become problematic when they become too loud or too long. What we call moaning is often merely an excess of natural, healthy grumbling.
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Do you suffer from Fear Of Missing Out?
It’s not life’s trivialities that should bother us but the triviality of life itself.
ReadWhat’s the problem with anger?
The more a machine is designed to look as though it’s trying to help, the more angry we get with it when it lets us down.
ReadHow should we present ourselves?
Too often we think only about what we want to say, and not enough about how we are likely to be heard and understood.
ReadHow gloomy should we be?
“All of existence is pestiferous, my own self most of all.” So wrote the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in his journal, a week after his 26th birthday. We may not envy Kierkegaard his gloom but it certainly did his reputation for profundity no harm. It is as though there is a law that states what is deep must also be dark…
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