...much-loved comedian and actor killed himself in 2014, the world was shocked and confused. Though you don’t know me, you might be wondering what it is that makes me want...
...that comes quite naturally to us — but why do we do it? Well, we want to look good: self-preservation kicks in as we write our CVs with a garnish...
...think it’s because our assumption that freedom produces happiness is a flawed one. Unfettered freedom is insufficient (and sometimes detrimental) to guarantee our happiness. If you’ve ever had a free...
...offers – an all-knowing, all-powerful God who knows you intimately and loves you infinitely. Someone who does care about you and has got your back. Someone whose perfect love drives out...
...When will we know we’ve arrived? At the risk of sounding like a petulant five-year-old — are we nearly there yet? It doesn’t help, of course, that no-one can agree...
...it is somehow invalid or meaningless. Varol praises out-of-the-box thinking and rightly acknowledges that many, many inventions and breakthroughs in science, medicine and technology have been accomplished by creative, inventive,...
...culture finds acceptable to think and believe are always shifting. In the post-#MeToo world, the films and sit-coms of just a decade or two ago look so problematic on so...
...such people in some regard, there can be something perverse about the self-dependence tendency. Donald Trump, for example, while his claims of being a self-made man might not stand up...
...trend towards hapless characters slipping further into despair. We have become so disillusioned by happy endings that don’t translate to real life. We know that a happily-ever-after rom-com is not...
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