Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
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Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
that happiness has little to do with the state of the outside world and everything to do with the state of the inside world. Often the insight is left at that, maybe using an analogy about playing cards, with no discussion about how to actually do that in real life. So in the absence of a snappier explanation, that’s what Raptitude is about: a plai
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