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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
by Oliver Burkeman
Even though this book can be placed in the category of 'popular psychology/filosophy', I don't see it as a 'self help' book nor as a book merely listing a selection of studies and facts.
The book carries the feeling of the message it aims to deliver: to reflect on how most of us are living our lives in finding happiness and imagining/setting goals to reach the 'ideal' state. It invites the reader to consider for themselves whether the 'negative path' might be a better way towards a happier life. One of the good side-effects: No checklist is forced upon you of 'all the things you should do to become happier'.
For me, This book mostly was an eye opening primer/entry into knowing the effects of stoicism and hindoeism on daily life (chapters 2-3). Other chapters weren't always my cup of tea. Although I found multiple gems in them, there were multiple sections that I found uninteresting (like, the definition of self). Overall, I'm glad to have read all of them to have gotten the full package of mental richness.
The book carries the feeling of the message it aims to deliver: to reflect on how most of us are living our lives in finding happiness and imagining/setting goals to reach the 'ideal' state. It invites the reader to consider for themselves whether the 'negative path' might be a better way towards a happier life. One of the good side-effects: No checklist is forced upon you of 'all the things you should do to become happier'.
For me, This book mostly was an eye opening primer/entry into knowing the effects of stoicism and hindoeism on daily life (chapters 2-3). Other chapters weren't always my cup of tea. Although I found multiple gems in them, there were multiple sections that I found uninteresting (like, the definition of self). Overall, I'm glad to have read all of them to have gotten the full package of mental richness.