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kwoolery08 's review for:
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
by Oliver Burkeman
I'm not generally one for self-help books, but the title of this one really caught my eye. I wouldn't actually call this self-help so much as a psychological and philosophical look at why so many themes in that genre tend to fail those who seek them out. Arrange into theme chapters, the book covers everything from positive thinking to goal setting to the self to death. Reading it was actually pretty freeing. It articulated so many of the things that I felt about those topics - things that I've often been made to feel are wrong because they go against what people want to believe about happiness, success, and how to achieve them.