For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
Not Taking Better Care of Your Body It's quite the paradox - you say you're too old for something, and yet you still keep the junk-food-fueled and anti-exercise habits of the younger you.
SA: One thing we know from our infidelity series is that long-term monogamy always invites a paradox.
"Psychologist Barry Schwartz explained the 'paradox of choice,' which is the idea that as we are afforded more choice, it can lead to higher levels of anxiety," she explains.
It's called the sleep paradox, says psychotherapist Julie Hirst (worklifebalancecentre.
This phenomenon has been called "the holiday paradox" by psychology lecturer Claudia Hammond.
Reading is something of a paradox.
The paradox of progress It starts with an age-old question: what is the meaning of life?
In the second part, I considered the "Solow paradox" — the strange combination of breathless innovation with stagnant labour productivity (though not so strange when you realise there is not that much investment in capital embodying the new technologies).
Sitting is such a paradox.
This is the famous conundrum dubbed the 'Fermi Paradox'.
There does appear to be, to put it mildly, something of a "productivity paradox".
This phenomenon, where many people regularly take selfies but most people don't appear to like them has been termed the "selfie paradox" by Diefenbach.
As more women rise higher in the workforce and evidence grows of the value of diverse teams, an odd and important management paradox is arising: mixed teams can be hell to manage.
The so-called Easterlin paradox helps explain Keynes's mistake.
As more women rise higher in the workforce and evidence grows of the value of diverse teams, an odd and important management paradox is arising: mixed teams can be hell to manage.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less.
It's easy to turn to self-help books when you consider the basic paradox: you won't ever do all the things you need or want to do in your allotted time.
But most scientists believe that nothing can actually travel faster than light, and, if you could go back in time, messing with the past would create all kinds of unsolvable paradoxes, like the Grandfather Paradox.
The economic elites, meanwhile, continue to embody a paradox: all the income gains that Keynes expected and more, but limited leisure.
