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Eight Ways to Banish Misery

Eight takeaways: Bertrand Russell broke down the root causes of unhappiness into eight categories of common errors humans make. They are: Fashionable pessimism: Presenting an outwardly negative or pe[...]

5 Tips to Stop Comparing Yourself to Other People

Five takeaways: Here are five tips to avoiding “the comparison trap” in defining your own sense of personal self-worth. Define what success means to you: Defining your own personal concep[...]

The Path to Happiness Is Narrow but Easy

Five takeaways: Opening with a reference to Tolstoy’s immortal opening to Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” this piece argues[...]

The Zeigarnik Effect

Five takeaways: In the 1920s, Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik observed an odd thing. While dining out, she was impressed by the complex orders the wait staff was able to remember at one time. Y[...]