Author and illustrator Lee Crutchley brings his lively interactive approach to a little-discussed but very common issue: the struggle with depression and anxiety.
Through a series of supportive, surprising, and engaging prompts, HOW TO BE HAPPY (OR AT LEAST LESS SAD) helps readers see things in [...]
How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It's a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna. But how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past five years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest[...]
Success through failure, calm through embracing anxiety--a totally original approach to 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. Roma[...]
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" [...]
For a civilization so fixated on achieving happiness, we seem remarkably incompetent at the task. 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 lead to happiness. Romance, family life a[...]
For a civilisation so fixated on achieving happiness, we seem remarkably incompetent at the task. 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 lead to happiness. Romance, family li[...]
Is our search for happiness futile? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? In this fascinating new book, Oliver Burkeman argues that 'positive thinking' and relentless optimism aren't the solution to the happiness dilemma, but part of the problem. And that there is, in fact, an alternative pat[...]
Släpp taget om dina mål, sluta jaga efter måsten och våga acceptera livets ofullkomlighet. Oliver Burkeman presenterar motgiftet till dagens lyckohets och jakt på det perfekta.Med hjälp av klokheter från antika filosofer, resultat från modern neuroforskning, exempel från terroristbekämpnin[...]