Swart Donkey

Siddhi are seemingly magical abilities attained through Sadhana. Sadhana translates as "a means of accomplishing something". In Y...

We can have a bias to Anger and Cheerfulness as righteous or positive emotions. Different moods carry different creative possibilities...

Emotional is not the opposite of Rational. Emotions can be, and normally are, Rational. There is a reason for why you feel the way you do. ...

The truth is that it has been very easy for me to sit back an wax eloquent for the last two and a half years about how to try approach the...

It is deeply empowering to accept that the world owes you nothing. Stoically assuming the very worst. Face, and accept, anything that could...

I tell people that I study ' happiness and learning ' which basically means I can think and write about anything. Because if it is ...

There is a core to happiness . For me, it is about adding space . Removing comparison . Getting down to the basics . Each day doing a littl...

One of my best buddies vetoed my answer to his girlfriend's ' What do you do? '. Another just laughed, and said ' Is that w...

Most strengths have associated weaknesses if they are overused . We know this from it's opposite and the unfair interview question of ...

In 2000, Zimbabwe was centre of conversation. A stream of global interest got my Zim buddies excited that perhaps there was going to be cha...

When trying to wrap my head round something that is vast and scary, I have started trying the idea of ' Thin Slicing '. Asked for a...

I am on route to Newcastle to watch South Africa play Scotland in the Rugby World Cup. Last night I watched 'Hector and the Search for ...

' Virtue is excellence at being human '. One of the advantages of looking at happiness as the cultivation of virtue is a real sen...

When I was a kid, I used to like fantasising about being the winner of one of those competitions where you get to run around a store with a...

A seed of the idea for this blog, and the adventure I am on , came from a friend's wedding a few years back. Ideas had been floating ar...

Economics is by definition the study of the allocation of limited resources, and as a consequence the production, consumption and transfer ...

One of the aims of this blog is a collaborative study of ' Happiness and Learning ' with people I know and meet. So far, I have h...

Because of a habit of bloody violence every time the bossman changed his view (and the evolution democracy), the West separated the ideas o...

I love going to restaurants where the Chef comes out to explain the menu. Clearly this doesn't happen often. We love great stories, an...

Guest Post by Megan Butler The gauntlet that Trevor threw down was to define happiness in 100 words or less. While I can do it for myself...