A review by klacebo
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman

4.0

If I could suggest a book to end all self help books, this would be it. This isn't so much a "self-help" itself, but rather it presents the philosophy dating back in ancient history, that the pursuit of happiness (whatever that means) constantly and obsessively is what really makes people unhappy in the first place. The message behind the interviews, research and history is clear: don't see the world as binaries (depressed/euphoric, sad/happy, etc), embrace the middle ground and simply accept things as they come. One star subtracted from the total, because in the audiobook version I felt at times that another narrator would have been better than the author to read.