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PDF/READ❤ Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested

COPY LINK HERE ; https://inkomastory.blogspot.com/?full=1589881478 [PDF READ ONLINE] Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested | &#8220[Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested,' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . . . For John Locke and his disciple Thomas Jefferson, happiness is not pleasure. Like those precursors, Brann teaches Americans to free themselves from att

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PDF/READ❤ Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested

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  1. Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested &#8220Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested,' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . . . For John Locke and his disciple Thomas Jefferson, happiness is not pleasure. Like those precursors, Brann teaches Americans to free themselves from attachment to superficial gratifications and to pursue a higher-quality contentment with life. She locates this contentment in our &#8216inerestedness.&#8217. . . As an American, my encounter with Brann&#8217swork calls me back to a sense of my own good fortune. Against a keening background noise of lament&#8212ovr the economy, the climate, the pandemic, the predations of technology, crime&#8212Ev Brann&#8217sbright witness lifts me up and out.&#8221#8212Peggy Ellsberg, Los Angeles Review of BooksBrann holds us steady in a world that sometimes seems chaotic . . . At this time, the loudest voices among us are dystopian, and spoken language is losing all civility. If you want a change from this, Pursuits of Happiness is a good place to start. Here&#8217sa fascinating, independent-minded writer whose words connect us to living more fully toward a more beneficial life&#8212thught-forms as catalysts.&#8212Wahington Independent Review of BooksThe essays of Pursuits of Happiness are articulations of Eva Brann&#8217s&#8220voational&#8221happiness of thinking things through. To Ms. Brann our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is the right not to an &#8220enless chase,&#8221but rather the right to the actual practice of happiness, as in the &#8220pusuit of a vocation.&#8221With essays like &#8220Tis on Reading Homer&#8221and &#8220ThGreatness of Great Books&#8221she keeps at her

  2. calling: to understand the world around us, and between us, to listen to our inner self-talk, and to consider what comes, perhaps, from beyond us.

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