The Conquest of Unhappiness

Bertrand Russell on what makes us unhappy (2)

In the first part of this post, we talked about what are, for Bertrand Russell ( The Conquest of Happiness, 1930) some of the reasons people are unhappy: fashionable pessimism, competition, boredom, and fatigue that comes from anxiety. In this second part, we will examine four more factors that contribute to unhappiness: envy, the sense of…