As a Third Ager, I have always believed that we all can be happy after midlife with the right mind set and knowledge. However, after reading <i>The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom</i> by Jonathan Haidt, being happy and having a meaningful life for everyone is a little more complicated than I thought.

Dr. Fred Horowitz, my colleague at happiness-after-midlife.com, recommended I read the book; it was one of his best reads of 2008 even...

In this second article of the series <i>The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom </i> by Jonathan Haidt, I share with you more fascinating psychological theories and observations I discovered. Although I realize that knowing about happiness will not make me or you more happy, it may help me and you understand how elusive attaining happiness can be.

In Part 1, I described Haidt’s description of the role of the unconscious mind or the...

Freud is now such a part of all of our lives, but perhaps in not the way that old Siggy himself would have liked. Everyone is savvy with the term Freudian, we all know that the dude paved the way into analysing our dreams and psychoanalysis remains with us, albeit in a much more limited way. For Freud, his theories were science more akin to biology than psychology. However, his theories were not drawn up nor developed in a scientific manner, being intensely metaphorical and far from...

Hey You! Wake Up!!

Are you asleep in your life?

Sure, you'll probably say no...most people would. But if the statistics are that most people are sleepwalking through life, would it not stand to reason that many people reading this article fall into that category?

Actually, anyone reading articles like this is probably in the process of awakening, and is looking for answers to how to make their lives better and...

You've looked high...you've looked low.

You tried that program your best friend told you about.

You called the 1-800 number and paid for that video set with your Mastercard...

You've tried it all!

So why haven't you achieved your goals? Have you done something wrong? Have you missed something?...

Yes, you have, and that is that you are expecting another program, another genius, another 'secret' to hold the answers to the life of your dreams.

So often...

The interesting thing about being the only black man, and black person, in an office is that I have this unique opportunity to educate white people about black culture.

For me, and many black men in my position, we find that once the initial barrier of resistance is overcome and a right of passage is granted, a competent and professional black man can go about the serious business of shattering stereotypes, representing the entire black race, and engaging in the refined...

This is the third article of the series reviewingThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdomby Jonathan Haidt. I want to share with you my take on a number of important concepts and contrasting notions regarding happiness and love that have had an impact on my own thinking.

In part 2, I described briefly the importance of reciprocity as a social bond. I looked at five very common mind games that people play: moral hypocrisy, the inner lawyer,...

Beware of Green eyed monsters!

People who see others behaviour more than their own and ‘build castles’ about how unlucky or unprivileged they are and blame the consequence on others. They are busy seeing the success others are getting and waste all the time finding the unrealistic reasons behind it, reason which never exist. This is a result of sheer frustration and lack of introspection. These people have extra-ordinary elf confidence and they continuously deny the...

Love On the Internet: Short Story

Prof. Hasan Yahya

Love Stories fill the Internet, sometimes you read amazing stories seem to you as lies or mare imagination, but people are feeling proud to write and share their experience with other crazy readers like themselves.   His name was Ahmad, and he is 31 years old when he wrote his unordinary story. Where chance and may be luck  play a great part in it. He used to  live in Kuwait, most of my life, in...

Personal atmosphere is an unlimited boundary of atmosphere which exists with a man. The intensity of this depends upon the maturity of the personalities and qualities like words spoken, dressing, outlook, smell, gestures etc. When two or more men meet then the contrast of their atmospheres happen. Man with strong personal atmosphere drives and changes the same of the others according to his style. Through which he leaves certain kinds of impressions on the mind of comparatively weak...