Eva Hoffman

How to Be Bored

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the latest installment of the acclaimed School of Life series, learn how to make peace with your down time-and even benefit from it. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing, but in the modern world the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Uninterrupted activity can seem exciting, but it can also leave us emotionally disorientated and mentally depleted. How can we recover a sense of balance and a richness in our lives? In How to Be Bored, Eva Hoffman argues for the need to cultivate curiosity and self-knowledge and to relish moments of unplugged idleness and non-virtual contact with others. Drawing on psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and a wide range of literature, she emphasizes the need to understand our own preferences and purposes and to replenish our inner resources. This book aims to make readers more vigorously engaged in their lives and to restore a sense of depth and meaning to their experiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 113mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9781250078674
• ISBN-10: 1250078679
• Artikelnr.: 44789440

Autorenporträt

Eva Hoffman

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
I. The Problem
1. Hyperactivity and Its Discontents
2. Challenges of Choice
II. Leisure
3. Idleness
4. Introspection
5. Imaginative Exploration
6. Contemplative Concentration
7. Choosing from Within
III. Engagement
8. Work
9. Relationships
10. Creative Play
Conclusion

Rezensionen

The School of Life is dedicated to making our lives clearer, less puzzling and more enjoyable - by studying the big themes of life with the help of culture. This new series of self-help books continues to reinvent the genre, making it into something more serious, profound and genuinely helpful. Alain de Botton