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Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Faber and Faber
November 2012
On Sale: November 13, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 0865479410
EAN: 9780865479418
Kindle: B0080K3G4O
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
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.
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