To live a full and happy life, it is important to learn to understand your desires. Often people suppress them because of pressure from others, and also out of their own fear. This leads to bitter regret at a later age, when a person realizes that he missed opportunities. Books from the collection will help to avoid disappointment.
Psychologist Charlotte Fox Weber has been looking for an answer to a personal question for a long time: "What do I want more than anything in the world?" — and then she began to ask a similar question to her clients. Working with thousands of different people, she was amazed at how difficult, interesting and dangerous it is to get to their deepest desires. But this is the most valuable thing — to get a clear understanding of what we want in order to move forward and feel the opportunities that open up. Charlotte Fox Weber is convinced that awareness of our desires brings us back to ourselves, and this is the beginning of growth.
The book contains real cases from the author's psychotherapeutic practice. These are the stories of different people at different stages of their life, whose problems are always connected with their deep aspirations. Having come face to face with their true desires and inner reality, they begin to work on satisfying requests. And we have the opportunity to read these stories to understand ourselves a little better.
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This book was born during a conversation between the philosopher Olivier Puriol and his friend Elsa Lafon. They had dinner, drank wine and tried to talk — they were disturbed by children who ran noisily around the house. Instead of calming them down and calling them to order, Olivier and Elsa decided that they did not want to strain themselves once again, but rather drink another glass. Soon the children's energy ran out and they fell asleep without the help of adults. At that moment, Puriol thought about lightness.
According to the author, we are mistaken when we think that it is necessary to make incredible efforts to achieve results. For example, to suffer for the sake of beauty, to study languages diligently or to squeeze all the juices out of yourself in training . Puriol is convinced that in some cases excessive efforts are not only useless, but also harmful.
Sometimes letting time do some of the work doesn't mean sitting back. This means acting effectively. In the book, the author reflects on how to achieve lightness, and cites famous Frenchmen as examples: Descartes, Cyrano de Bergerac, Rodin, Gerard Depardieu, Stendhal and others.
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According to the author himself, journalist Oliver Berkman, this is another book about how to use our time in the best way. But it is based on the belief that the exploitative time management to which we are accustomed has failed miserably, and it is not worth pretending that this is not the case. Don't make any more mistakes about the need to be productive.
Berkman considers productivity a trap that increases employment. No matter how much we try to sort out the work, it accumulates faster and faster. It is worth doing the opposite: learning the art of procrastination, being in the present moment, relaxing and letting go of control.
The author advises to accept as a fact that no one in the whole history has managed to achieve a balance between life and work. You won't be able to do it either, even if you honestly do six things that successful people do before 7 in the morning. But accepting your defeat, the fact that the day when it will be possible to take everything under control and finally sort out all the cases, will never come, is a great idea. Because after that, real time management begins.
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The phrase "find yourself" sounds both banal and paradoxical. Each person knows approximately who he is. But many do not understand where to move in life, how to make the right choice and understand what they really want.
Coach Leonid Krol writes that "I" consists of some unshakable pillars: for example, "I am 45 years old," "I am a mother," "I am a director," "I am a Jew." But also from fluid, diverse, bright and unstable states, desires and moods. And if everything is more or less clear with the "passport" data, then there are difficulties with the second part. In the book "Find Yourself" Leonid Krol explains how to better understand your characteristics, find a sincere drive and the ability to have fun, move forward and live to the fullest.
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Clinical psychologist Vladislav Chubarov explains that awareness is the unity of emotions, feelings and thoughts. This is a skill that can be developed and which helps to establish relationships with yourself and others. The author compares the way to this state with diving into water: the depth is behind mental defenses, in order to dive into it, you need to learn to concentrate on emotional pain — the one behind thoughts and anxiety. The specialist tells you how not to run away from it, not to rationalize, not to jam and not to drink, but to take it drop by drop. And to learn to realize and feel, to experience what I tried to hide from all the past years.
This book is about how to sort yourself out, identify motives and fears, make friends with the person who looks at you from the mirror. Chubarov tells us what self-sufficiency is and how to make relationships with loved ones happier. The book contains tips on how to embrace your dark side, build a better version of yourself and live "at such a distant and such an attractive depth of awareness."
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For centuries, people have been searching for the origins of motivation. Why do we behave this way and not otherwise? Finding answers to this question, we begin to understand ourselves and others better, we can more clearly foresee what will follow next and how others will act. Angela Ahola, a doctor of psychology, has written a book about who we humans are: about our behavior, motives, relationships and ways to understand each other.
From the book you will learn what hidden motives exist inside us, how they manifest themselves outside and how they create problems for us in life. Then you will get acquainted with practical tools that will teach you how to manage your motives and turn them into personal superpowers.
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Blogger Mark Manson's book attracts attention with its cheeky title. But don't let it mislead you: the author does not offer to become indifferent to everything that happens in life, but tells you how to learn to prioritize.
Manson writes about false success and how to resist it, explains why the irrepressible thirst for satisfying unhealthy ambitions does not lead to anything good, and shares effective ways to comprehend the "subtle art of indifference."
"Send everything to hell" in Manson's philosophical concept means the ability to look at things sensibly, face your fears boldly and strive only for what is really valuable. The author of the book reminds that life is short, and no one knows at what point it will be interrupted. In order not to bite your elbows in the dying moments from the fact that time has been wasted, he already offers to leave in life only what is important to you. And to spit on everything else and forget. How to do this in practice is described in the book.
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