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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The more we chase happiness, the less happy we often become.
Chapter 3: Failure is an inescapable part of life – embrace it.
Chapter 4: Embracing death and suffering can become true sources of comfort and relief.
Chapter 5: Uncertainty is the only certainty in life, so it helps to cultivate a negative capability within ourselves.
Chapter 6: Face your fears by realizing them: they really aren’t as bad as you think.
Chapter 7: Certain philosophies, religions, and cultures find happiness by accepting life’s negative things and realities.
Chapter 8: Stoicism promotes tranquility and meeting worries as they arise.
Chapter 9: Buddhism teaches us to detach from our thoughts and watch them like passing weather in the open sky.
Description
The Antidote is the intelligent person’s guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness. The author emphasizes that positive thinking isn’t the solution, but part of the problem. He outlines an alternative, “negative” path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity and uncertainty – what we usually spend our lives trying to avoid.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to feel happy, even when things go wrong
- Anyone who’s tired of setting and trying to follow through rigid goals
- Anyone who wants to learn to appreciate what they have