Delayed gratification
“We’re not usually trying to be happy, we’re trying to avoid unhappiness” Sure, avoiding unhappiness is not the same as striving for happiness (or fulfillment), yet o
Schluss mit Secondhand-Sex
Heute schreibe ich auf Deutsch, weil ich ein deutsches Buch vorstelle. Marlise Santiagos Text war für mich ein wichtiger Impulsgeber und die erste Motivation, mich mit gelebter Se
Sex as… space (introducing Esther Perel)
Is sex something we do or is it a space we enter? I listened to Esther Perel posing that question the other day in her million-viewer-ted talk where she discusses infidelity and th
We have a fixed level of happiness
To make it short: The bigger share of our happiness is a given, according to the set-point-theory in happiness research, also known as the hedonic treadmill. This observation was f