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What the subways teach us about control

February 5, 2011

[Note: It will probably take you about 3 minutes to read this post. And when you’re finished, you’ll feel happier.] I’ve written several posts about control and how we delude ourselves into thinking that we have control over the universe. Most recently, I speculated that, perhaps, happiness depends on us relinquishing the illusion of control. […]

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On happiness and need

January 18, 2011

Perhaps one of the hardest things for a person to accept is that he or she cannot control the universe. I know we all understand this intellectually, but emotionally it is very difficult to accept. We plan, we act and we experience the effect of those actions on our lives in a way that suggests […]

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Control is not an asset

December 16, 2009

You don’t really control anything. And if you’re a person that badly needs to control things then you have a very frustrating life. Unless you’re very good at deluding yourself. The world is a scary place. There are sharks. Tornadoes. Worms in apples. It is profoundly uncomfortable for most people to feel entirely at the […]

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