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Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking | Oliver Burkeman
Success through failure, calm through embracing anxiety a totally original approach to self-helpSelf-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" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, "The Antidote "is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness."
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Bailedbailed

Abandoning—I would have loved this in my 20s. Now, I prefer the author‘s 4000 Weeks.

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Pickpick

If the positive thinking mantra is not your thing, I would most definitely recommend reading this book for a different outlook and indeed a different path to happiness.

You can read my full review here:
https://sumisbooks.weebly.com/book-reviews/the-antidote-by-oliver-burkeman

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#BookHaul #BookMail today! 🎉🎉🎉

Has anyone read any of these? 😃

jb72 Molokai is a good book. I read it a few years ago. 4y
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Crazeedi Molokai is good, I agree, and there is a sequel, I haven't read it yet 4y
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robinb Molokai 💓 4y
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Nute Moloka‘i is very good. There is a sequel that came out many years later, but I‘ve been hesitant to read it for fear that it won‘t be as good. 4y
Laughterhp I‘ve had Moloka‘i on my shelf for so long! I really need to read it! 4y
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ralexist
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Goals. Achievement. Targets. Quotas. All of these are things that people use to go after that thing we call happy. But what is happy? And why are we so convinced that always striving for something better will get us to that happy? This books walks folks through the idea that we actually do better when we stop focusing on doing better. That not thinking about the negative or failure is detrimental to our being good humans. Important read.

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volatilestatic
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As a therapist, I'm often frustrated by positive psychology (and the self-help cults that have grown up around it). Antidote isn't just a takedown of the happiness industry; it also provides alternatives. Definitely recommended.