Everything Is F*cked

healthy adversity and challenge, people struggle even more. They become more selfish and more ...

to sit around all day and imagine wacky theories about physics—theories that would soon flip the world on ...

you are the same age. The two of you decide to go on a little intergalactic adventure, and each of you ...

whenever the pager went off, each person was to stop and write down the answers to two questions: 1 . O ...

piña colada will get you to your ten. But then it’s a second piña colada, and then a third, and ...

Pursuing happiness is a value of the modern world. Do you think Zeus gave a shit if people were hap ...

end up feeling the same.^15 This is because pain is the experience of life itself. Positive emotions are the ...

should have been an unequivocally good thing. The problem was that that pesky Cold War was going on—a ...

members and corrupt cronies. He and his family lived in opulent luxury while famine swept across the countryside, ...

protests were nothing new. The procession reached the intersection in front of the Cambodian embassy ...

(Copyright AP Photo/Malcolm Browne. Used with permission.) Yet, as he burned, Quang Duc remained perfectly ...

than a few minutes. Meanwhile, this guy was fucking burning alive and he didn’t even move. He didn’t flin ...

gets stronger the more stress and strain you put on it. The breaking down of your body through exer ...

But actual Buddhist meditation is far more intense than simply de- stressing oneself with fancy app ...

At peace. The Buddha said that suffering is like being shot by two arrows. The first arrow is the physica ...

The adult has an incredibly high threshold for pain because the adult understands that life, i ...

matter. You could let your relationships deteriorate and fall away because, after all, those pe ...

poverty, starvation, and disease from the population, they mistook this improvement of pain ...

Chapter 8 The Feelings Economy In the 1920s, women didn’t smoke—or, if they did, they were severely j ...

women to buy and smoke cigarettes through logical arguments, Bernays saw it as an emotional and cultural issue. ...