Project Armannd

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One of the biggest enemies of a healthy mind is uniformity (lacking diversity or variation in its interactions). That is, having a homogenous interaction with the world and filtering out everything that does not fit one’s interests.

Imagine a John Doe who only watches horror movies, listens only to country music, eats only chicken, [...]

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The relationship between money and human happiness is a simple one.

The happiness created by money is abstract happiness (the emotion induced by an increasing amount of goal-achievement), and one turns to it when he no longer is unable of enjoying the real happiness (which is a matter of experience of the mind, or [...]

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People with brilliant minds and extraordinary capacities think little of admitting or exposing their weaknesses and faults. For them, they represent something for which they have paid, something that they deserve to have. They might even feel that their errors do them honor and help define them better.

On the other hand there [...]

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No one can know what capacities he possesses for doing, happiness or suffering, until an opportunity arises to bring them into play.

Without such opportunity, the best anyone can do is speculate. And that speculation is often times exaggerated, as almost every person wishes, hopes and dreams, or distorts the reality with other, more [...]

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As Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, once wrote, “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

That most of us misunderstand happiness and look for it in the wrong places is not an unknown fact. We constantly suffer its illusion and blindly try to [...]