256 pages
English language
Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
256 pages
English language
Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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.