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The antidote : happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking
- Title
- The antidote : happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking / Oliver Burkeman.
- Author
- Burkeman, Oliver.
- Publication
- New York : Faber and Faber, c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-3893 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 236 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.
- Contents
- On trying too hard to be happy -- What would Seneca do? : the Stoic art of confronting the worst-case scenario -- The storm before the calm : a Buddhist guide to not thinking positively -- Goal crazy : when trying to control the future doesn't work -- Who's there : how to get over your self -- The safety catch : the hidden benefits of insecurity -- The Museum of Failure : the case for embracing your errors -- Memento mori : death as a way of life -- Negative capability.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-3893
- ISBN
- 9780865479418
- 0865479410
- LCCN
- 2012022880
- OCLC
- 2012022880
- Author
- Burkeman, Oliver.
- Title
- The antidote : happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking / Oliver Burkeman.
- Imprint
- New York : Faber and Faber, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-3893