Stand firm : resisting the self-improvement craze /
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Polity,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Life in the Fast Lane; Mobility versus stability; Finding your feet; Notes; 1 Cut out the navel-gazing; Gut feelings; Find yourself or learn to live with yourself?; The paradox machine; What can I do?; Notes; 2 Focus on the negative in your life; The tyranny of the positive; Positive psychology; The positive, acknowledging, appreciative leader; Blaming the victim; Kvetching; Getting on with life; What can I do?; Notes; 3 Put on your No hat; So what is the Yes hat
- and why do people wear it?; The ethics of doubt in the risk society.
- What can I do?Notes; 4 Suppress your feelings; The emotional culture; The consequences of the emotional culture; What can I do?; Notes; 5 Sack your coach; The coachification of life; The dangers of coaching; Coaching and friendship; What can I do?; Notes; 6 Read a novel
- not a self-help book or biography; The big literary genres of the day; The novel as a technology of the self; Literature without illusions; What can I do?; Notes; 7 Dwell on the past; The personal significance of the past; What can I do?; Some final thoughts; Notes; Appendix: Stoicism; Greek Stoicism; Roman Stoicism; Notes.