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A review by wilte
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
3.0
Refreshing look at self-help industry and some alternatives. Did lack some consistency/coherency between chapters.
Stoics: "you cannot control the situation, so reacting with fury against that reality is irrational. Your irritation is almost certainly out of all proportion to the actual harm" (p41)
Chris Kayes on James Lester research on Everest climbers: "The more uncertain climbers felt about their possible success (...) the more they were likely to invest in their particular strategy": Goalodicy (mantain goal in the face of evidence that not obtainable, negative evidence is reinterpreted as a reason to invest more effort and resources in pursuit of the goal. (p79-82)
p89: Ordonez article Goals gone wild - The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/09-083.pdf
p98: It's all about meandering with purpose
p129: UK Spends Billions to Force Rail Terrorists to Drive a Little Further https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/uk_spends_billi.html
p210 Eckhard Tolle's question: "do you have a problem right now? is a marvelous antidote to low-level stress"
Stoics: "you cannot control the situation, so reacting with fury against that reality is irrational. Your irritation is almost certainly out of all proportion to the actual harm" (p41)
Chris Kayes on James Lester research on Everest climbers: "The more uncertain climbers felt about their possible success (...) the more they were likely to invest in their particular strategy": Goalodicy (mantain goal in the face of evidence that not obtainable, negative evidence is reinterpreted as a reason to invest more effort and resources in pursuit of the goal. (p79-82)
p89: Ordonez article Goals gone wild - The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/09-083.pdf
p98: It's all about meandering with purpose
p129: UK Spends Billions to Force Rail Terrorists to Drive a Little Further https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/uk_spends_billi.html
p210 Eckhard Tolle's question: "do you have a problem right now? is a marvelous antidote to low-level stress"