HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done
Paperback Published on: 06/10/2011
Price: £9.99
Synopsis
How do you solve the problem of human happiness?
It's a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna. But how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past five years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest outposts of the 'happiness industry' in an attempt to find out. Help! is the witty and thought-provoking story of his journey. In it, he tackles:
The Secret of Great Leadership
How to Be Interesting
Why All Meetings Should Be Abolished
How to Become a Better Morning Person
The Hidden Pleasures of Worry
and many other subjects . . .
Publisher information
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- ISBN: 9780857860262
- Number of pages: 288
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
- Weight: 195g
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Enormously funny and thoughtful
Self-help books are, let's face it, loathsome. We know we should be getting more out of life but we also know that those books on the shelf only help the p... READ MORE
Says it how it is
Self help books are often a pile of tosh, as Burkeman discovered when he devoured nearly all of them. The few nuggets he did extract are in this extremely ... READ MORE
Funny, thought-provoking and informative
I really enjoyed this book from start to finish. It really is the self help book to end all other self help books. He discusses various self help technique... READ MORE