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10 Easy Ways To Make Your Day Worse

May 4, 2010

1. Hold onto that grudge 2. Blame someone else for your own shortcomings 3. Wonder why anyone wastes their time on you 4. Think of yourself as a lost cause 5. Tell a lie 6. Just kill some time 7. Think about how much you hate your job while you’re at work 8. Belittle someone [...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 20 – The Science of Happiness

April 21, 2010

At the time of this writing, it’s been over 30 hours since I’ve had a tic. 30 hours. I’m counting the time I spend asleep now, because soon it’s going to be easier to count days than hours. 30 hours. And not only is it 30 hours without tics, it’s thirty hours without the urges [...]

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Do You Have A Favorite Memory?

August 6, 2009

The difference between happiness and joy is vast. What we call joy might only be mere happiness, and much of what we call happiness might actually be contentment or the absence of pain. While there are many things I enjoy today, and many days that are wonderful, my son has given me new perspective. There [...]

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A Definition of Sarcasm

April 21, 2009

Home After I made a particularly fine joke one day, a friend said to me: “You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of sociopathy.” I laughed at this. Later, I looked up the word sociopath. The definition wasn’t as funny as my joke had been. The Scientific Definition From the Oxford English Dictionary (the only [...]

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