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The Antidote

Oliver Burkeman

  • 256 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2012
  • 18 editions
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1 About this book

Exploring the dark side of the theories put forth by such icons as Norman Vincent Peale and Eckhart Tolle by looking to both ancient philosophy and current business theory, Burkeman--a feature writer for British newspaper The Guardian--offers up the counterintuitive idea that only by embracing and examining failure and loss and unhappiness will we become free of it.

Good for readers who want: happiness, self-improvement, and philosophy.

  • Positive psychology
  • Happiness
  • Personal growth
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Negativism
  • Realism

2 About Oliver Burkeman

Born 1975

Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardian. In 2021, he published Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a self-help book on the philosophy and psychology of time management and happiness.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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