Three Ways to Respond to Suffering
Life is difficult, life is wonderful, or life is mixed: three ways of responding to suffering. Which one matches your outlook on life?
Archived Posts from the blog ‘Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life’.
Life is difficult, life is wonderful, or life is mixed: three ways of responding to suffering. Which one matches your outlook on life?
For me the trickiest part of authenticity (if not the most intense or dramatic) has been being introverted.
In part one of this post, I suggested that money can be a harder subject for couples to negotiate than their sex life or even child raising. Part two explores how couples can make money management easier.
Money can be a harder subject for couples to negotiate than their sex life or even child raising. This first of a two-part look at financial dependence and independence outlines three reasons why money seems to touch on such primal issues for us.
I think these are the ways that madness and genius are similar: the experience of creativity, seeing/speaking in ways not generally understood, and social isolation.
Even in our secular culture there seems to be a widespread sense that somehow money has lead to a denigration of the Christmas spirit.
When asked, “What have done in your life?”, it is usually achievements that count as an answer. Imagine the difference between answering, “I was President/Prime Minister” compared to, “I’ve been a good friend and courteous to most strangers”.
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