The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Oliver Burkeman
ISBN: | 9780143175988 |
Publisher: | Penguin Canada |
Published: | 1 October, 2013 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Oliver Burkeman
Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2012: The you-can-do-it, life-is-one-big-smiley-face ethos of our contemporary culture has its value: Aggressive positivity helps many triumph over addiction, say, or build previously unimaginable businesses, even win elections and wars. But according to Oliver Burkeman, this relentless pursuit of happiness and success can also make us miserable. Exploring the dark side of the theories put forth by such icons as Norman Vincent Peale and Eckhart Tolle by looking to both ancient philosophy and current business theory, Burkeman--a feature writer for British newspaper The Guardian--offers up the counterintuitive idea that only by embracing and examining failure and loss and unhappiness will we become free of it. So in your next yoga class, try this: breathe deep, think unhappy thoughts--and feel your soul relax. --Sara Nelson
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