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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

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The Power of Habit and How to Rewire Our “Habit Loops”
The Power of Habit and How to Rewire Our “Habit Loops”

What Iraqi kebob vendors have to do with your New Year’s resolutions.

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Holiday Economy Examined
Holiday Economy Examined

What our present economy has to do with 165,300 bathroom visits and 67 million dead large birds.

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Famous Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie
Famous Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie

“Stay glad. Keep hoping machine running. Love everybody. Make up your mind.”

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A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success
A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success

On reconciling the fussy with the fuzzy, or what Benjamin Franklin has to do with Drew Carey.

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