“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are...” — Daniel Dennett Quote

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Play is such a fundamental feature of the human spirit that it is used as a tool in psychotherapy, an are that typically involves an exploration of the roots of mental suffering. Hence, even in the darkest of circumstances, the desire to play manifests itself.

To be successful in our quest for happiness, we need to tackle life with the grit, determination, and persistence necessary to achieve meaningful goals, whilst possessing a protective armor against possible, even likely, failures. Successful individuals are almost always "anti-fragile" when it comes to failure. They