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An Interesting Life Rather Than a Happy One
We typically assume that the ultimate aim of all our efforts is to have a happy life. And judged on…
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The Challenges of Male Friendships
Men are lonely not through any specific deficiency on their part but because of an inherent conflict between what is required of being a man on the one hand and what is involved in being a friend on the other.
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Why Introverts Are As They Are
We become introverted or extroverted as a result of particular experiences; it is our distinctive path through childhood that determines at which end of the spectrum we are going to fall.
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The Boring Person
The boring person isn’t really boring; they are in manic flight from what is profoundly and agonisingly interesting in themselves.
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The Wisdom of Liming
On the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, there’s a skill which is widely revered, which has been…
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Reasons Not to Give Up
In one of the upper rooms of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford hangs a picture by a minor Danish nineteenth…
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Sociability
The Need – Sometimes – Not to Complain
We know so much about the importance of complaining; of standing up against problems; of pointing out what is wrong;…
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Leisure
The Pleasures of the Underground
There are moods – of dissatisfaction and loneliness, panic and despair – when the very best counsel we might be…
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Self-Knowledge
Is There Something Wrong – or Am I Just a Very Miserable Person?
We can spend a lot of our lives angrily focused on just how hopeless and awful many things are: this…
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Leisure
Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age
There’s an apparent paradox in the way that the longer we have lived, the more appreciation we tend to develop…
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Relationships
A Crucial Sign That Someone Is Worth Going Out With
There is one sign that more than any other indicates that someone may well be a rewarding and trustworthy person…
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Relationships
There Are No Small Issues in Love
We are sometimes let down by an unhelpful idea about how big an issue needs to be in order to…
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Leisure
The Wisdom of Liming
On the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, there’s a skill which is widely revered, which has been…
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Leisure
Reasons Not to Give Up
In one of the upper rooms of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford hangs a picture by a minor Danish nineteenth…
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Sociability
The Need – Sometimes – Not to Complain
We know so much about the importance of complaining; of standing up against problems; of pointing out what is wrong;…
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Leisure
The Pleasures of the Underground
There are moods – of dissatisfaction and loneliness, panic and despair – when the very best counsel we might be…
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Self-Knowledge
Is There Something Wrong – or Am I Just a Very Miserable Person?
We can spend a lot of our lives angrily focused on just how hopeless and awful many things are: this…
View
Leisure
Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age
There’s an apparent paradox in the way that the longer we have lived, the more appreciation we tend to develop…
View
Relationships
A Crucial Sign That Someone Is Worth Going Out With
There is one sign that more than any other indicates that someone may well be a rewarding and trustworthy person…
View
Relationships
There Are No Small Issues in Love
We are sometimes let down by an unhelpful idea about how big an issue needs to be in order to…
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