Admit it. We hate it when our friends succeed.
Whether we like to admit it or not, the success of those closest to us brings a mass of conflicting, shameful emotions.
Study: The science of schadenfreude – Why it feels so good to see someone fail
Schadenfreude. The only thing that makes life worth living. Ha ha.
Envy: The secret root of our depression?
I believe that the modern trend of presenting the idealised you on social media is adding to our depression. Bare envy sits at the root of this problem.
Greed, envy, inequality – forces for good or evil?
In November 2013, Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, poster-boy for popular Toryism and potential leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, delivered the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture at the Centre for Policy Studies, a right-wing think tank. Although his speech attracted comments from left-leaning critics, there has been a stunning silence from his own side [...]