Those who want to sell to us need our attention. Unfortunately, it’s easy for us to get each other’s attention by tapping into the lower parts of our brains, such that getting people addicted to watching bad news, eating unhealthy food, and other things that reverse good health and happiness, can p

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Instead of buying loads of plastic bags that I'll just throw away, I have a few different shopping bags of different sizes made from recycled material. If I don't know what I'm going to buy, I'll usually just take a bigger bag with a smaller one inside it! Bag-ception! I do this because it's way e

This is what I mean by 'happiness as the norm': everybody happy, everybody healthy. Common Objections "Unhappiness is just part of human nature!" "You can't know good without bad!" "The most powerful people won't allow it! There's too much money invested in keeping people unhealthy and unhappy"

I used to hate the police, partly because I felt rebellious and cool, but also because I thought of the police as some kind of ominous, threatening, and oppressive force that wants me to stop smoking drugs. As I became interested in how the world works, I began to see the childishness of this noti

Litter-picking is satisfying in the same way that it's satisfying to clean a bedroom.