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A review by darlinot
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
3.0
3.5 i think!
this book did more for telling me that i'm... on the right track more than really giving me a TON of new ideas/ways to deal with things. i liked the way this book gave context to all of the aspects of the concepts and strategies it examines.
"Did the negative path to happiness really work? To answer that question with a simple yes or no, or to offer up a list of ten surefire tips for negative-thinking success, would be to violate the ethos of the thing"
i respect that this book is about the journey of learning about different ways of approaching happiness and dealing with anxiety and i found it pretty useful! it gave me some solid, more direct strategies for implementing a lot of things i had kind of innovated on my own? but i've got a bad memory so i wish i'd taken better notes so that *i* could translate a lot of the things in this book to five surefire tips so the idiot reading it can remember the things they found useful lol
this book did more for telling me that i'm... on the right track more than really giving me a TON of new ideas/ways to deal with things. i liked the way this book gave context to all of the aspects of the concepts and strategies it examines.
"Did the negative path to happiness really work? To answer that question with a simple yes or no, or to offer up a list of ten surefire tips for negative-thinking success, would be to violate the ethos of the thing"
i respect that this book is about the journey of learning about different ways of approaching happiness and dealing with anxiety and i found it pretty useful! it gave me some solid, more direct strategies for implementing a lot of things i had kind of innovated on my own? but i've got a bad memory so i wish i'd taken better notes so that *i* could translate a lot of the things in this book to five surefire tips so the idiot reading it can remember the things they found useful lol