I’ve always had a sense that confidence played a bigger part in things than the textbooks were letting on. Of all the strangenesses of the human mind, “confidence” (yes, with suspicious quotes, too) is perhaps the most interesting to me. I generally have too much of it, which feels great, don’t get me wrong. But “confidence” …
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The Happiness Hypothesis [Review]
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt is a book about something almost anyone with a religious background and a growing interest in science and psychology has probably wondered about. If you read almost any ancient religious text, you’ll find an awful lot of overlap between their prescriptions for happiness and what you might hear from the receiving end …