More Paradoxes of a Happiness Project: I Desire to Not Want.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood (cribbed from Niels Bohr) is "The opposite of a great truth is also true." As I've worked on my happiness project, I've recognized many paradoxes.

In Marc Lesser's book Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less, I read a fascinating list of such paradoxes by Chade-Meng Tan, a Google engineer whose title is "Jolly Good Fellow."

I was quite struck by his list – and also by the number of times that my resolutions and paradoxes overlapped with his.

His list, with my...