The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “happiness”

Bad News: A Media Fiction
Bad News: A Media Fiction

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HAPPY: A Documentary
HAPPY: A Documentary

From swamps to slums and why owning nothing can mean having everything.

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Srikumar Rao on Hard-Wiring Happiness
Srikumar Rao on Hard-Wiring Happiness

Why success and failure are exactly the same, or how process supersedes perfection.

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Tom Waits Reads “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
Tom Waits Reads “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski

On finding light in darkness, knowing chances and the ownership of life.

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The Moment Jars
The Moment Jars

A timecapsule of human existence, or what childbirth and a moose have in common.

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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Primates, philosophers, and how subjectivity ensures the absolute truth of our existence.

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Ayn Rand on Love as a Business Deal: The 1959 Interview
Ayn Rand on Love as a Business Deal: The 1959 Interview

Why state and economics should remain separate and what the true currency of love is.

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Live Now: In-the-Moment Inspiration
Live Now: In-the-Moment Inspiration

A true exercise in art therapy, or what all motivational posters should aspire to be.

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The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit
The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit

A year’s worth of ideas, inspiration and innovation from culture’s collective brain.

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Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project
Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project

Neighborly wisdom, music innovation, and the extraordinariness of ordinary human speech.

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