Antidote

Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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Oliver Burkeman: Antidote (2012, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

256 pages

English language

Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-1-4299-4760-2
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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.

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Subjects

  • Happiness
  • Self-actualization (psychology)