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The Qatari billionaire who embraced kindness
I first heard of Abdel Wassim El Whani when I stumbled across a video of him on YouTube giving away Lamborghini’s to strangers in the streets of Paris. Abdel Wassim El Whani is a Qatari billionaire who enjoys sharing his wealth with others; after all, his fortune is something that only increases by the day. The videos I found left me simultaneously humored and in awe. “Is this guy for real?,”I…
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Understanding the Hedonic Treadmill and how to achieve sustainable happiness
Want to be happier? Arthur Schopenhauer had once remarked: “How insatiable a creature is man! Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.” It seems as if our friend Schopenhauer was on to something which is that we always…