Contentedness

Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 11:42 | Category : blog, blogging, happiness, science, video
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As regular readers will know I read and think (and subsequently write) a great deal about happiness. Quite often I’ve discussed the word happiness with people and tend to agree that the word itself stands in the way of our experience of it. Happiness has become synonymous with big white weddings, having beautiful perfect babies, [...]

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JK Rowling and Failure in the same sentence

Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 12:30 | Category : video
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Of the many, many brilliant speeches I’ve seen/listened to on TED, this is the one that has touched me the most. JK Rowling, I bow to your wisdom! This speech is perfect in an oratorical sense, I’m sure Cicero is nodding approvingly from the podium in the sky. It is wise, it is funny, it [...]

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