Happiness

Happiness is what we seek for its own sake, and it takes wisdom to find and keep it.

Levels of Energy

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This is a review of the book Levels of Energy by Frederick Dodson. This book describes a scale of emotional states, generally from better to worse. In this respect, it is much like the Emotional Tone Scale of Scientology, which I consider to be the one good idea in Scientology …

Are Liberals or Conservatives Happier?

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I’ve now read the first chapter of Gross National Happiness by Arthur C. Brooks, which says that the data shows that conservatives are generally happier than liberals. Before I evaluate this, let me emphasize what it is not saying. It is not saying that every conservative is happier than every liberal, nor is it saying that conservatives are more right than liberals.