There are many studies showing the health benefits of a more positive outlook. Other studies show how having that kind of outlook is actually a habit that can be cultivated. But, if your life feels like an endless series of stressful tasks, how do you start? Here’s a moment I had:

Have you ever joined a group of people and then been appalled by them? What I mean is a love-hate kind of thing, kind of like the way some people feel about their relatives. Maybe you (like some of us) grew up in the kind of family where silent, protracted struggles are enacted over chairs [...]

There was alarmist news in the Daily Mail this weekend. Specifically, that the human race would split into two distinct species within the next 3,000 years, a prediction by “evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.” [...]