The Antidote

In this groundbreaking, counterintuitive book, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives and in society at large we're much better off embracing the inevitability of failure rather than spending our lives pursuing happiness. This philosophy―a kind of non-attachment to outcome―has far-reaching implications for how we live.