Evan Hadkins has published the following articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
Money can be a harder subject for couples to negotiate than their sex life or even child raising. This first of a two-part look at financial dependence and independence outlines three reasons why money seems to touch on such primal issues for us.
I think these are the ways that madness and genius are similar: the experience of creativity, seeing/speaking in ways not generally understood, and social isolation.
Even in our secular culture there seems to be a widespread sense that somehow money has lead to a denigration of the Christmas spirit.
When asked, “What have done in your life?”, it is usually achievements that count as an answer. Imagine the difference between answering, “I was President/Prime Minister” compared to, “I’ve been a good friend and courteous to most strangers”.
Something close to a position of ‘no regrets’ — making a choice and living with the consequences — is easy to adopt for me. But is an absolute ‘no regrets’ policy too close to callousness?
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