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		<title>A language of life and self-esteem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few months I&#8217;ve been studying what seems like a brand new language. I say &#8220;seems like&#8221; because this language actually isn&#8217;t foreign to me or to you, like Chinese or Russian (assuming you&#8217;re not bilingual:). Rather it&#8217;s what we spoke naturally when we were very young, before we became immersed in the language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullshit! hit piece on self-esteem and Nathaniel Branden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a break in a long blogging hiatus. A close friend of mine informed me that Penn and Teller recently did a Bullshit! episode on self-esteem, which can be viewed here (though it might become defunct due to being in violation of so-called &#8220;intellectual property&#8221; laws). A very thorough explanation of the show was done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning feelings, then changing them</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important and psychological insights is that feelings are not irreducible primaries. While most people take them as &#8220;the given,&#8221; feelings are actually the result of our subconscious assessments or interpretations, in the form of super rapid thoughts (or &#8220;silent assumptions,&#8221; as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) calls them). This means that feelings are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness and hedonism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m about to go out to enjoy the sun-drenched Mission Bay beach that beckons from my bedroom window, I thought &#8220;hedonism&#8221; would be good to address. Along these lines, I also had an extraordinary conversation the other night with a woman who had not yet encountered the explicitly Objectivist perspective on happiness. (Btw, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness in hard economic times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year may prove to be difficult for many, as the seeds of statism sown over the years grow into seriously poisonous foliage. Since government has a monopoly on the medium of exchange in our economy (via fiat currency and legal tender laws), it&#8217;ll be hard for anyone to escape the consequences. With that, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness Lost In Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awhile ago, I bookmarked the following interesting article by Max Borders at Tech Central Station Daily: TCS Daily &#8211; Happily Burying Bentham Now, I&#8217;m all for burying Bentham, along with all the other spokesman for contradictory moral philosophies, but a few statements by Borders deserve scrutiny. While, in identifying these correlations Crick and Koch missed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I find happiness in life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How Can I Find Happiness In Life?&#8221; That&#8217;s one of the questions on a pamphlet I found on my door the other day. As you might suspect from the types of pamphlets left on your own doors (minus the ones for auto mechanic discounts, pizzas, and carpet cleaning), this one was offering an afterlife in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Happy for No Reason’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I thought we&#8217;d ponder some of the thoughts of a popular happiness promoter, Marci Shimoff. She had a role in the film The Secret, btw, which regardless of its dubious metaphysical perspectives can never be accused of being pessimistic. Here&#8217;s a list of incredibly optimistic teachings gleaned from The Secret&#8217;s gurus. They are really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pursuing Happiness…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty comprehensive article on the idea of happiness throughout the ages: Pursuing Happiness: The New Yorker. I found the following quotations particularly interesting. We have been hardwired to emphasize the negative, and, for most of human history, there has been a lot of the negative to emphasize. Hobbes’s description of life in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Places of Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently listened to a podcast interview with Eric Weiner, who wrote an interesting book called The Geography of Bliss. Rather than critique the various ideas about happiness that he and Will Wilkinson discussed, I thought I&#8217;d recommend you read a list of people&#8217;s descriptions of favorite places for experiencing a profound sense of bliss: Your Happiest [...]]]></description>
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