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Contentment, that admirable, enviable state–how is it achieved? A few theories: The All-American get-what-you-want theory: Contentment is the state achieved when appetites are satisfied. The Ascetic get-over-what-you-want theory: Contentment comes not from satiation but cessation of appetite. And a hybrid: The want-what-you-have theory: Contentment is wanting just what you have and nothing more. Some of […]
Nobody I know, me included, can stand all truths, inquiries, arguments, and challenges any time day or night. There are, from time to time things we’d rather not talk about and times when someone brings up these unwelcome topics. We find ourselves engaged in a dispute and wanting to back out, in effect to say […]
Where I live, here-and-now-ism is still in vogue: Appreciate the moment. Don’t waste time in the past or the future. Just be with what is. When brushing your teeth, just brush your teeth. I have doubts about here-and-now-ism. I value my visits to the past and future. I can remember many times when thinking about […]
A contranym is a word that means two opposite things: “Dust,” for example, as in dusting a room means removing dust, but dust, as in sugar-dusting a donut or dusting for fingerprints means applying dust. “Fast” likewise means immovable as in “hold fast,” or moving quickly as in “fast car.” Contranyms are fun (my favorites […]
In my last article I argued that intuition is powerful but not always right. We try to override intuition with will power, saying things like “from now on I won’t be irritated with you.” A better bet is to retrain intuition and in this article I’ll talk about what’s involved. Intuition is the product of […]
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