The antidote

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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.

subjects: Positive psychology,  Happiness,  Negativism,  Self-actualization (psychology),  Philosophy,  Psychology,  Realism,  Negativity (Philosophy),  Réalisme,  Bonheur,  Psychologie positive