The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
A Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction book. ...once you have resolved to embrace the ideology of positive thinking, you will find a way to interpret...
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" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it...
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- ISBN: 9781847678669 / 1847678661
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...once you have resolved to embrace the ideology of positive thinking, you will find a way to interpret virtually any eventuality as a justification for thinking positively. You need never spend time considering how your actions might go wrong. Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking // We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said I think, therefore I am, he had not discovered the most fundamental truth, Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to the most basic error. Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking // For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking //
Originally published in English as The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive ThinkingI have always had a sort of love-hate relationship with positive thinking. On the one hand, telling myself that things'll work out somehow, helped silence my panic-stricken rants. Interestingly enough, these rants where mostly fueled... The impact this book has made on my outlook on life has been profound. Highly recommended! Looking at life directly is a lot like looking at the sun directly and should come with similar warnings. Damage will be done. Which is not to say that you shouldn't do it, or that anything could prevent some of us from doing it frequently and with great determination. But it would have been nice to have had some sort of cautionary...
