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  title info:
    title: Propelled
    sub title: how boredom, frustration, and anticipation lead us to the good life
  name:
    name part: Elpidorou, Andreas
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "Weaving together stories from sources as wide-ranging as classical literature, social and cognitive psychology, philosophy, art, and video games, Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life makes a lively case for the value of discontent in our lives. It offers novel, detailed, and scientifically informed characterizations of the nature and outcomes of boredom, frustration, and anticipation. The book demonstrates why these three states should not be viewed as obstacles to our goals but as elements of the good life and explicates how they can illuminate our desires and expectations, inform us when we find ourselves stuck in unpleasant and unfulfilling situations, and motivate us to furnish our lives with meaning, interest, and value"--
  table of contents: "The secret to happiness may be unhappiness" -- "I hear you clearly, yet your voice sounds far away -- distant and unreal" -- "What do you think it's like being dead?" -- "Confined in an invisible bubble that prevents contact" -- "Like water after days in the desert" -- "An energizer, but not a guide; an engine, but not a steering gear" -- "Impossible to stop just now. Why, if I could only prove one simple little lemma" -- "Our possible existence is always greater than our destiny" -- "And you, what do you think of optimism?" -- "Immobile paradises promise us nothing."
  note: Andreas Elpidorou.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Boredom
  subject:
    topic: Desire
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Ennui (Lassitude)
  subject:
    topic: Désir
  subject:
    topic: Qualité de la vie
  subject:
    topic: quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Mind & Body
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Emotions
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
  subject:
    topic: Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Boredom
  subject:
    topic: Desire
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  classification: BF575.B67 E45 2020eb
  classification: 158.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Propelled
    name:
      name part: Elpidorou, Andreas.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
    identifier: (DLC) 2019053132
    identifier: (OCoLC)1133663742
  identifier: 9780197524343
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  identifier: 9780190912987
  identifier: 9780190912963
  identifier: 9780190912970
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  identifier: 2019053133
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191213
    record change date: 20260319181735.2
    record identifier: in00005718176
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng