Originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog. It’s a familiar story. On his final journey toward Jerusalem, Jesus stops in Bethany to eat at the home of Simon, a leper. A woman enters with an alabaster jar of expensive ointment; she breaks the jar and pours...
Whenever I hear the word poverty, it reminds me so much of what I had experienced growing up. I live in an impoverished neighborhood where every day is a struggle to survive. Luckily my parents made sure that there’s always food on our table. We eat three times...
Is it possible that destiny takes over leadership in your life?I assume each of us made experience of sudden shifts in his/her life already.- Some shifts happen due to mistakes we do ourselves. Most of them can be reversed once we discover it was a mistake.- But...
This essay was a talk given by the author at the Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland February 27 – March 1, 2015. Written by: Bayo Akomolafe (PhD). Coordinator, International Alliance for Localization This past year, on an October afternoon, we carefully...
