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Oliver Burkeman || Time Management for Mortals

The Psychology Podcast

The Antidote, Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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The author's new book is called happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking. He says he was trying to sum up his life philosophy in the most engaging and useful way possible. In both cases, i'm talking about a certain kind of pessimism, or, yes, like a tragic out outlook,. To put it a bit pretentiously, that that is about, it's about accepting acertain kind of defeat as being the precondition of a life well lived.

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