Burkeman Oliver
Burkeman Oliver - The Antidote Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking - Paperback
Burkeman Oliver - The Antidote Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking - Paperback
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Description: From the author of the New York Times - bestselling Four Thousand Weeks a totally original approach to self - help: success through failure calm through embracing anxiety. Self - help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth even if you can get it doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance family life and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west in bulletins from the past and from far afield Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists terrorism experts Buddhists hardheaded business consultants Greek philosophers or modern - day gurus they argue that in our personal lives and in society at large it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure pessimism insecurity and uncertainty the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought - provoking counterintuitive and ultimately uplifting The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much - misunderstood idea of happiness.
Title: The Antidote Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Author(s): Burkeman Oliver
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250860408
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/9/2022
Category: Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-Esteem
Description: From the author of the New York Times - bestselling Four Thousand Weeks a totally original approach to self - help: success through failure calm through embracing anxiety. Self - help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth even if you can get it doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance family life and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west in bulletins from the past and from far afield Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists terrorism experts Buddhists hardheaded business consultants Greek philosophers or modern - day gurus they argue that in our personal lives and in society at large it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure pessimism insecurity and uncertainty the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought - provoking counterintuitive and ultimately uplifting The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much - misunderstood idea of happiness.
Title: The Antidote Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Author(s): Burkeman Oliver
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250860408
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/9/2022
Category: Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-Esteem
