You Can't Be Happy Alone – Was Aristotle Right? Aristotle believed that human happiness, or eudaimonia ("flourishing"), cannot be achieved in isolation. He argued that we are social beings by nature and that a life without meaningful relationships falls short of true fulfilment. Modern research strongly supports this view. Robert Waldinger's Harvard Study of Adult Development, which followed...
I do not often refer to political sources, but this one needs to be kept for posterity. Thank you, Matt Goodwin. Why winning elections is NOT ENOUGH - inside a new plan to take on The Regime Matt Goodwin May 27, 2026 I strongly recommend that you subscribe to this substack channel https://www.mattgoodwin.org/subscribe Matt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to 94,000 subscribers. Inner Circle and Paid...
The Frome community networking event I attended Wednesday caused me to focus on many topics, the fruits of which will appear in the coming days. For more than ten years I have kept a daily diary, now running to something like two million words. What began as a simple record of events slowly became something else: a mirror. Over time, patterns began to reveal themselves — not only in the world...
When the right soul walks into your life, it feels different. It's not just romance; it's a shift. They don't create drama; they bring peace. They don't dwell on your past; they honour the strength you built from it. Their presence pushes you to heal, to rise, and to grow into the version of yourself you've always been capable of becoming. It's not simply a relationship. It's a partnership in...
This was one of the most helpful summaries I've had for some time and helps me to balance compassion with the need not to interfere with others or try to run their lives, however good the motive. Brian Jung’s Radical View of Empaths Carl Jung took people with extreme emotional sensitivity seriously at a time when psychiatry dismissed them as unstable or delusional. He believed empaths weren’t...
I recently watched a video that claimed to rank the countries most affected by immigration, placing France first and the United Kingdom second. Whether such rankings are reliable or not, they prompt a broader and more personal question: how does anyone maintain a sense of peace of mind when it feels as though familiar social, cultural, and economic structures are being steadily weakened? Rising...
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