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‘Cultural Appropriation’: A Rivalrous Reaction to a Rivalrous Problem

Zero-sum tactics won’t cure the root cause. Systemic change demands a new system of anti-rivalry. Photo by Levi Jones on Unsplash It’s...

7 min

Your Wellbeing Is Dependent on Your Ability to Not Take Offence

How to choose resilience over fragility, and why it’s so important for happiness. The idea that everyone has a right not to be offended...

8 min

Mortgaging Happiness to Dreams

Happiness need not be defined by the gap between where we are today and where we want to be.

6 min

Trust the Method: Abandoning Science and Reason Undermines Progress

A friend of mine has been in poor health for a while and recently made the decision, with advice from medical professionals to lose some...

6 min

To save our environment, we should first save our happiness

We’ve been hoodwinked into defending a lifestyle that isn’t worth fighting for, at the cost of something that is.

14 min

The Faulty Autopilot: 5 Instinct-Driven Behaviours We Should All Overcome

We need not feel guilt for instincts we do not choose or create but the moment we allow ourselves to justify and defend them, we own them.

7 min

You are the Problem

To do our part to improve the world around us the best thing we can do is become better at interacting.

6 min

Why so Hard?

You see much more from the mountain that you ever could from the valley.

8 min

The Mandate Paradox

What does the Scotland situation after the 2019 election mean for democracy in the UK?

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