AJ Abbey Jan 11 6 min ‘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...
AJ Abbey Dec 2, 2020 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...
AJ Abbey Dec 2, 2020 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.
AJ Abbey Jun 21, 2020 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...
AJ Abbey May 14, 2020 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.
AJ Abbey Feb 16, 2020 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.
AJ Abbey Dec 30, 2019 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.
AJ Abbey Dec 30, 2019 6 min Why so Hard? You see much more from the mountain that you ever could from the valley.
AJ Abbey Dec 30, 2019 8 min The Mandate Paradox What does the Scotland situation after the 2019 election mean for democracy in the UK?
