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The seasons change quickly where I live. I’ve been aware of this for some time, but this year, I tried to catch it. To mark the exact day that it happens. I have a thesis: If we pay more attention to ...
The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend. - C.G. Jung
Ask people to list the most important things in life, and you will typic...
I suddenly become effortlessly, completely focused, and I experience the object of my attention in hyper-detail, as though my resolution has increased ten-fold. I am unaware of time, unaware of me, as...
We have realized the dream for three generations, now.
It was first made possible by the war, when his maternal grandfather trained in the then-ubiquitous Stearman bi-plane and later flew both the B-17...
There is no shortage of important discussion topics in the personal transformation/self-improvement/positive psychology world in which I work. My current focus is on helping people who are facing majo...
Everybody wants something; we are hardwired that way. It is human biology; you have powerful dopaminergic reward systems that make you want to progress, to discover, to become; to get what you want.
So...
Ask people what they really want, and you will find that there are two main principles that underlie their initial list of material stuff: love and freedom. Both are important for long-term, sustainab...
I recently got some raised eyebrows from my musical accomplices when I told them I was taking guitar lessons. They know me as a long-time professional guitarist, musician and composer, and a music tea...
NOTE: This article is longer than my usual Mindset Monday posts, but there are a lot of new people coming to the Hardcore Happiness community, and I just (August, 2025, as I write this) launched a Har...
“Tide‘s coming in,” she said.
Looks like it.
He was a bit startled to hear the voice.
As usual, when he looked up, no one was there.
He was still alone here, at the End of All Things.
It had taken a long...
“Sorry,” he said, “sorry,” as he wedged himself between my window seat overlooking the sea and the wall outlet destined to recharge his phone.
He then sat at my table, directly across from my steaming ...
The most basic right is to defend yourself, to protect your life. So what happens when the enemy is you? You still have to fight back!
A Dangerous Foe
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
What is you...
What would increase your well-being and satisfaction? More health? More wealth? Better relationships? Whether you want fame and fortune or just peace and quiet, it all starts with one question: Are yo...
Sometimes the search for happiness involves touchy-feely discussions, sometime techy talks. This week we are getting a bit scientific and have more to say about everyone’s favorite molecule: dopamine....
The epistemological debate regarding free will is out of my philosophical wheelhouse; I will leave it to the theologians. But I do know this:
While we don’t choose our genetics or the circumstances of ...
