The Best Possible Self Through Writing

I’m currently reading The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky. Unlike previous personal development books that I’ve read, this one is penned not by a spiritual leader but by a social psychologist. Blending New Age principles with scientific study, Lyubomirsky shows that up to 40% of our happiness can be controlled by our own thoughts [...]

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Why New Yorkers Are So Rude

Lee Abbamonte wrote an insightful piece on the supposed rudeness-friendliness dichotomy of the New York attitude. Some people—and Lee is one of them—will argue that New Yorkers are just about the rudest people on the planet, while others will cite the countless instances of New Yorkers helping out-of-towners with directions and navigating through the Big [...]

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Two Dreams

I had two dreams last night.
In the first one, I was employed as a doctor in a nondescript emergency room. A patient was rolled in on a gurney because he was experiencing a heart attack. I moved to attend to him. As I pushed the wheeled gurney, the patient spilled out and fell face-first on [...]

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