Month: June 2008

There are lot of negative connotations around the word “pleasure.”  Even though our most necessary functions (eating, having sex, sleeping, socializing) are pleasurable in order to ensure that we…

Many people think that giving involves unreasonable sacrifice, unpleasantness, and, in general, doing things that you don’t want to do, but which you have to do…

I am an introvert.  But, growing up, I would have preferred to have been an extrovert: outgoing, social to a fault, and able to speak my mind on the…

Note – December 2008:  I have written a completely new post on this topic with these same ideas expanded further.  The new post is called…