Have you ever felt happiness at someone else’s misfortune? It could be as simple as taking the last parking spot, and everyone else is still looking for parking. There’s a German word for this emotion: schadenfreude. Schaden means damage and freude means joy. This state of mind only exists when...

When we live in fear, we see changes as unlucky, unfortunate, and destructive. This is why people stay in unhealthy relationships and unhealthy jobs, because they prefer the unhealthy familiar over the healthy unfamiliar. When we live in choice, we accept change as part of life. If life was...