How To Survive The Modern World Making Sense Of And Finding Calm In Unsteady Times

Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912891535
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked and self-absorbed. How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure.

Author : Life of School The
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912891993
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Survive the Modern World written by Life of School The and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked, and self-absorbed. How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental well-being. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient, and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure."--

Author : Summersdale Publishers
Publisher : Summersdale
ISBN 13 : 1787831833
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pause written by Summersdale Publishers and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I breathe in calm. I breathe out calm. Modern life can be fast-paced and stressful, so we all need a way to press ‘pause’ from time to time. With simple mindfulness techniques, self-care ideas, and easy ways to relax, this little book will be your pocket guide to finding moments of peace, reflection and calm in every day.

Author : Julia Werntz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945996132
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steps to the Sea written by Julia Werntz and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains microtonal ear training and compositional exercises, and analysis. The process of ear training, understanding, and beginning to compose is broken down into manageable steps. Numerous audio examples are provided - the composition exercises beautifully performed by violist Mat Maneri, and the simple ear training drills with midi. (Steps to the Sea was originally published in Germany in 2014 by von Bockel Verlag as part of the book 1001 Microtones, edited by Sarvenaz Safari and Manfred Stahnke.)

Author : Alain de Botton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780241985830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The School of Life written by Alain de Botton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve. This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including: - how to understand yourself - how to master the dilemmas of relationships - how to become more effective at work - how to endure failure - how to grow more serene and resilient.

Author : Joanne Zienty
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500290832
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Things We Save written by Joanne Zienty and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broken 45 rpm record held together with adhesive tape, a fading stack of Polaroids, a cobalt blue perfume bottle, and a braid of human hair … these are just some of the things Claire Sokol keeps stashed in an old Marshall Field's gift box. But how did they get there and what do they signify? If these relics could talk, what stories would they tell? The tale of a child torn between the bitter sermons of a troubled, troublesome mother and the honeyed praise of the beautiful, sophisticated woman who just might be her fairy godmother? Of an innocent girl and boy lost in a dark, forbidding forest of adult lies and deceit? Of a young woman fighting to save a beloved father from his worst enemy – himself? Of a young man's death, a tragedy from which to flee or a mystery to finally solve? The Things We Save tells the story of the ways, both subtle and brutal, that a family falls apart and the intimate struggle to put what remains back together. It asks provocative questions about the nature of love, the corrosive effects of envy and guilt, and the limits of forgiveness. The Things We Save is for anyone who has ever slammed out a door with the vow to never return, only to find his or her way back home again.

Author : Cathy Covell
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452589565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling Your Way Through written by Cathy Covell and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling Your Way Through will help you connect to your inner wisdom so you can become empowered on your healing journey--one that will help heal the body, mind, and spirit. It's time to break free of the physical and emotional pain that are preventing you from living your life fully! Feeling Your Way Through can help you take control of your healing process.

Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life
ISBN 13 : 9781912891863
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A More Loving World written by The School of Life and published by School of Life. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912891214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anxiety written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion and mental well-being. Far more than we tend to realise, we’re all – in private – deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hopes will come true, whether others will like us, whether the people we care about will be OK, whether we can escape humiliation and grief... Anxiety is deeply normal and, like so much else that troubles our minds, it can be understood and brought under our control. We all deserve to wake up every day without a sense of foreboding. This is a guide to anxiety: why we feel it, how we experience it when it strikes and what we can do when we come under its influence. Across a series of essays that look at the subject from a number of angles, the tone is helpful, compassionate and in the best sense practical. We have suffered for too long under the rule of anxiety. Here – at last – is a pathway to a calmer, more compassionate and more light-hearted future.

Author : Meg Wolitzer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594632340
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interestings written by Meg Wolitzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."—Entertainment Weekly (A) The New York Times–bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called "genius" (The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot." The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.