Walking by Erling Kagge & Becky L. Crook

Author:Erling Kagge & Becky L. Crook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

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For Arne Næss, happiness had to do with glow—by which he meant fervour or passion—and pain. He distinguished between bodily and mental pain. Like a philosopher with a grasp of mathematics, he devised his own equation for well-being. The first time I saw the equation, I had to read through the logic several times because it is as ingenious as it is simple—and true:

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W = well-being, G = glow (joy/fervour), P = pain, b = bodily, m = mental. Næss emphasized that G can be increased to whatever exponent you wish. This gives the equation a rather optimistic quality.

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