The Helmet of Salvation

• Humor, in a way, protects us from life's grim reality. We joke because if we didn't, we'd cry.
• Humor and laughing are also a social vocalization that includes some and excludes others. Jokes establish who is inside the group and who is not. We laugh with peopl...

The Value Fulfillment Theory provides us with a sensible way to understand how ours and others lives could be better. How our choices influence our value fulfilment and helps us reflect on the question: What truly matters to us?

Our values have in-built motivation inside, along wi...

The limits of our memory serve us well in many respects.

• Limited memories are useful trade-off to allow us to function and survive. We have thousands of memories, for example, of tables. If we recall all the events related to a table, it will create mass confusion w...