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My buddy Ben wrote recently: “Last night, at my favorite cafe in San Francisco, I said to a friend that Obama’s speech at Wesleyan kind of made me squirm.” He felt that Obama’s words implied a collectivist (read: socialist) mindset that subordinated the individual to the group, and indicated a disdain for the invisible hand … Continue reading Individualism and Collectivism Aren’t Polar Opposites
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”–Abraham Lincoln Ironically enough, Lincoln suffered from clinical depression. Remember kids, depression is a physiological condition–check with your physician!
Something I learned back when I started my first company is that there is always more you can do. There’s always one more email, one more phone call, one more Google search that might help your business. In the end, however, each day has only 24 hours, and when those hours are gone, they are … Continue reading F–k Stress, Live Life
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.” –Charles Schwab (the founder of Bethlehem Steel, not the pioneering discount broker)
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”–Benjamin Franklin, patron saint of the Silicon Valley Junto
New research shows that the old saw that money can’t buy happiness has an important exception–you can buy happiness *IF* you spend it on someone else. “Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.Their experiments on … Continue reading Money Can Buy Happiness
“To have hope we need to have a goal, we need to believe we can attain the goal, and we need to see a way – a pathway – to attain it.”—Doug Turner
“Paradise is here or nowhere: You must take your joy with you, or you will never find it.”–O. S. Marden
Alisha and I watched “Little Miss Sunshine” last night. The thing about my movie-watching habits is that A) I’m a parent of two young children, and B) I’m cheap, which means that I only get to see movies when the library decides to buy the DVD and when either C) the kids go to sleep … Continue reading Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”–Mahatma Gandhi Simple, yet profound and beautiful. Or more simply, “be true.”