Work, austerity and happiness

The desires can be satisfied easily, either producing a lot or wishing little. Marshall Sahlins Listening to the story of an autonomous mother of a teenage son who went to psychological consultation to help with some details of this, there was a part of that story that caught my attention, and in which I had to stop it because she mentioned it quickly and as without importance. She was doing a kind of recounting of the family history: marriage, …

Unconditional happiness: beyond illusory optimism. To speak of happiness, or its possibility, could seem to be a postulate proper to the current currents where extreme positivity has become a fashion. However, before moving forward, it would be appropriate to contextualize this concept in order not to fall into that error. Of course, happiness does not lie in the absence of problems. Nor is it found in the attainment of each of our objectives or…