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An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
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Simon Vance
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Dean Rickles
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Why life's shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningful
Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints—and death is the ultimate constraint—make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles explains why the finiteness and shortness of life is the essence of its meaning-and how this insight is the key to making the most of the time we do have.
Life Is Short explores how death limits our options and forces us to make choices that forge a life and give the world meaning. But people often live in a state of indecision, in a misguided attempt to keep their options open. This provisional way of living—always looking elsewhere, to the future, to other people, to other ways of being, and never committing to what one has or, alternatively, putting in the time and energy to achieve what one wants—is a big mistake, and Life Is Short tells listeners how to avoid this trap. By reminding us how extraordinary it is that we have any time to live at all, Life Is Short challenges us to rethink what gives life meaning and how to make the most of it.
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What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement. A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, Dr. May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives.
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May takes on the Creative Act
- De Lowball en 01-16-19
De: Rollo May
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The Landscape of History
- How Historians Map the Past
- De: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today.
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Excellent Book!
- De Billy en 09-15-18
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Why Smart People Hurt
- A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative
- De: Eric Maisel
- Narrado por: Seth Podowitz
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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The challenges smart and creative people encounter - from scientific researchers and genius award winners to best-selling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics - often include anxiety, overthinking, mania, sadness, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, natural psychology specialist and creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his many years of work with the best and the brightest to pinpoint these often devastating challenges and offer solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology.
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Stunningly Unintelligent
- De john burke en 05-22-21
De: Eric Maisel
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- De: Carl Jung
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the classic introduction to the thought of Carl Jung. Along with Freud and Adler, Jung was one of the chief founders of modern psychiatry. In this book, Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology: dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion.
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Could have almost been an automated text reader
- De Chicken Love en 04-24-15
De: Carl Jung
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About Behaviorism
- De: B.F. Skinner
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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About Behaviorism is about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.
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Refreshing and concise
- De Autumn and Sam en 07-30-22
De: B.F. Skinner
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The Antidote
- Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy. And that there is an alternative "negative path" to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid.
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The Antidote explores the negative path.
- De Bonny en 05-15-14
De: Oliver Burkeman
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Miracles
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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"The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this." This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation.
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sound, shrewd, well articulated, and well read.
- De Andrew en 09-17-15
De: C. S. Lewis
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The Dream of Reason, New Edition
- A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
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Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. Author Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers through the celebrated days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, up to Renaissance visionaries like Erasmus and Bacon, philosophy emerges here as a phenomenon unconfined by any one discipline.
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Bias spoils the work.
- De MC en 08-21-20
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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Secular Buddhism
- Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
- De: Stephen Batchelor
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace. Is it possible to recover from the Buddhist teachings a vision of human flourishing that is secular rather than religious without compromising the integrity of the tradition?
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Good, but repetition of old material
- De Ludwig en 02-25-18
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The Belief Instinct
- The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
- De: Jesse Bering
- Narrado por: Jesse Bering
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our best attempts to embrace rational thought and reject superstition, we often find ourselves appealing to unseen forces that guide our destiny, wondering who might be watching us as we go about our lives, and imagining what might come after death. In this lively and masterfully argued new book, Jesse Bering unveils the psychological underpinnings of why we believe.
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engaging and insightful
- De juliagee en 01-02-15
De: Jesse Bering
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- Venusian Incognito
- 11-02-23
A new personal favourite
“Short” but sweet, dense, and easily digestible. Each chapter gives the reader something to think about: from how we so easily waste away our most precious resources to the downside of allowing ourselves to be too comfortable. All my personal favourite philosophers make an appearance, from Seneca, Epicurus, Socrates, to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and Camus.
Narrator was great as well though there was a slight static in the background. May be my earphone though. Great read. About to listen again!
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