Name: The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can'T Stand Positive Thinking
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Author: Oliver Burkeman
ISBN: 9781250860408

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The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can'T Stand Positive Thinking

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oliver Burkeman

Publisher

Picador

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781250860408

Synopsis "The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can'T Stand Positive Thinking "

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.

Oliver Burkeman

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Oliver Burkeman is a British writer and journalist who currently lives in New York. His work has been recognized on several occasions, he was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2006 and named Young Journalist of the Year by The Foreign Press Association. He is the author of several bestsellers such as The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, and the international bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. He also writes the popular weekly psychology column for The Guardian "This Column Will Change Your Life", in which he addresses all kinds of issues related to the world of psychology, philosophy, and mental health, among others. @oliverburkeman

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