Happiness The Other Fifty Shades of Gray For me, gray is the color of depression. While I like gray as a color and there is plenty of it in my wardrobe, for my emotions, it's the color for funky depressive moods, attitudes, days and even for some eras of my life.
Life 2.0 The Change Loop Do you know how your thermostat works? Many people think they do, but I'm not so sure. Too many of them do things that tell me they really don't. To describe it in its most basic parts, your thermostat is a simple on/off
Happiness How We Create Unhappiness Focusing on Happiness There’s an assumption that we go through life wanting to be happy. We're assumed to be looking for happiness or trying to create a happy life. Much of practical self-help and classical philosophy is based on this. The US Declaration
Habits Sitting with Yourself There's a scene in Men in Black (1997) set in the city morgue. The coroner (Linda Fiorentino) and J (Will Smith) are standing by the body of an older man when his ears pop out sideways and his face hinges open to reveal a
Thinking We Become What We Think About At the time I started putting this site together, I started looking for a new tag line. My students had been looking at “Question Everything Better.” on the screen before class for about a year. I had been considering using that here and then
Thinking Thinking I spend a lot of time thinking. It's one of the reasons this site is named what it is. Technically, we all spend a lot of time thinking. Our heads are seldom very quiet for very long. If you're not convinced, try meditating for
