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A Skeptic’s Guide to a Good Life
Religious scholars, philosophers, psychologists, and humans have been searching for answers to their questions for thousands of years. They’ve searched churches and bars, books, and seminars. They’ve asked Google, Siri, Alexa, and God.
There’s one universal question in every human’s search for answers: how do you live a good life?
THIS ARTICLE WON’T CHANGE YOUR LIFE
If you’re someone like me who has read enough self-help books to start a side hustle as a therapist, you might be asking yourself, “Then why the hell am I reading this?
Notice that you never ask that question about the book that promises you more sex, more money, and more of whatever it is that you think is missing from your life. But how often do such books fulfill the promises they make to their readers?
If the thousands of books on my shelf were an accurate reflection of the outcomes in my life, I would:
- Be a billionaire
- Write a best-selling book every year
- Be the most self-actualized, charming, and enlightened human being on the planet
- Wake up every day of my life like a Zen Buddhist on ecstasy
