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A review by boxofdelights
The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life by Erika Owen
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Walking is good for you. Walking without a goal except to be here now is good for you in a different way than walking to get somewhere or accumulate steps.
This book is more of a magazine article, printed in a large friendly font with lots of white space and decorative elements, and padded out with 25 pages of the author's friends' and relations' answers to questions like "Do you feel better after walking?" and pages of blank lines for you to write in your own answers to those questions.
"Walking by yourself in a new neighborhood can also create a similar sort of gut-wrenching anxiety, but I encourage you to find confidence and empowerment in no one knowing your name." There are techniques that can work to reduce social anxiety, but being told not to feel that way is not one of them.
A few pages later, "This is another great point Scott brings up: no matter who you are and especially if you're a woman or a person of color, it's important to identify your early-warning reactions. We all have them, whether it's the hair on the back of our neck standing straight up or that feeling that someone is watching us, despite our being in a relatively empty space. Listen to your body and be aware of how you feel."
Okay, so you, anxious person, are always in the wrong, but we don't know what kind of wrong you are until after the fact. If nothing bad happens to you, you were wrong to be inhibited by your anxiety; if something bad happens to you, you were wrong to ignore your anxiety. Good to know!
This book is more of a magazine article, printed in a large friendly font with lots of white space and decorative elements, and padded out with 25 pages of the author's friends' and relations' answers to questions like "Do you feel better after walking?" and pages of blank lines for you to write in your own answers to those questions.
"Walking by yourself in a new neighborhood can also create a similar sort of gut-wrenching anxiety, but I encourage you to find confidence and empowerment in no one knowing your name." There are techniques that can work to reduce social anxiety, but being told not to feel that way is not one of them.
A few pages later, "This is another great point Scott brings up: no matter who you are and especially if you're a woman or a person of color, it's important to identify your early-warning reactions. We all have them, whether it's the hair on the back of our neck standing straight up or that feeling that someone is watching us, despite our being in a relatively empty space. Listen to your body and be aware of how you feel."
Okay, so you, anxious person, are always in the wrong, but we don't know what kind of wrong you are until after the fact. If nothing bad happens to you, you were wrong to be inhibited by your anxiety; if something bad happens to you, you were wrong to ignore your anxiety. Good to know!