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Sto caricando le informazioni... The antidote : happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking (originale 2012; edizione 2012)di Oliver Burkeman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. "If you accept that the universe is uncontrollable, you're going to be a lot less anxious." This is written in the book. It is also the attitude of many people throughout the world, most of them outside the U.S. Many people in Spain, for instance, have this attitude. I'm working on it. It's not the only path towards happiness, but it's one. Another is an analysis of what happiness actually is. I liked this practical, well-written, no-nonsense, book. ( ) Another thought provoking read by Oliver Burkeman. I really appreciate his willingness to explore a topic in a very different way, here the positive thinking to happiness self-help world. I have fallen into the self-help books trap at times and I know how enticing it can be. "This Book Will Change Your Life". Burkeman's approach isn't to debunk but to use the idea of making change as a launch pad to explore philosophical and other modes of thought and apply those to life change. It is the opposite of a self-help, there are not 10 rules to follow or 7 personality types or whatever. Rather a new way to think about what change you might want and how you can explore it or perhaps how he chooses to explore it and what spaces that might open for the reader. Just a really refreshing read that will stick with me. This brought to mind a bit by Louis CK where he says «You gotta be optimistic [...]. Stupid. You have to be stupid. That's what "optimistic" means, you know... It means stupid. “Hey, maybe something nice will happen.” Why the f*** would anything nice ever happen? What are you, stupid?» Haha. I'm not saying I'm a pessimist, but rather a realist who can't stand positive thinking and the self-help rubbish. Stoicism teaches us that how we feel about a thing is not the same as the thing itself. Traffic may be bad but I don’t have to feel bad about traffic. I can choose how I feel about a thing, a decision which can foster peace or chaos, depending on the choice. But acceptance does not mean resignation. From the Buddhists, “I” and my thoughts are not the same. Observing my thoughts can lead to a healthy detachment from them, leading to greater clarity of action - I do not have to feel like doing a thing to do that thing. Slow down. Safety, comfort, control, security are impermanent. Life includes risk, discomfort, chaos, vulnerability, failure, and eventually death. The negative capacity is a skill that doesn’t avoid the difficult aspects of life, neither does it seek them out. But when they come, it embraces them for what they are. Happiness is not measured by one’s success in the relentless pursuit of the positive; it is a clear eyed, curious (awe and wonder), open embrace of all the mysteries of life. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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