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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.

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17 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2013
    Penguin Canada · 256 pages · 9780143175988
  • Paperback · English · 2013
    Faber Faber · 256 pages · 9780865478015
  • Audiobook · English · 2013
    Brilliance Audio · 9781480527300
  • Other · English · 2022
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    Picador · 9781250860408
  • Other · English · 2018
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    Penguin Random House · 236 pages · 9781473561915
  • Other · English · 2018
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    Penguin Random House · 256 pages · 9781784709662
Positive psychologyHappinessNegativismSelf-actualization (psychology)PhilosophyPsychologyRealismNegativity (Philosophy)