When we’re surrounded by what we want, we cease to want it. The trivial explanation is that the desire to have is incompatible with the condition of having. “Listen hear, little nipper! You can’t want to have what you already keep!” This is, however, a pathetic, semantics-fueled avoidance of the following truth: when one is…
People often perform tasks measurably better when the tools they’re using put them in a state of enthused confidence. You are right to consider this statement obvious, but obvious statements are no more immune to being run through the gamut and deconstructed into their atomic elements than are ambiguous ones. Moreover, it is the humor…
Being happy makes no more sense to me than being sad. Isn’t it true that when someone is very happy or depressed their feelings may get the better of them, they may become delusional, and will consequently make irrational decisions? So then being neither happy nor sad is the most stable, objective state of mind….