Yearning for a life of leisure? In 24 chapters representing each hour of a typical working day, this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule-obsessed worker. From the founding editor of the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, The Idler, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a...

"Who wants to live a life of unhappiness and suffering? If ytou answered "not me", then Hope Not Nope is the book for you! If 'life' isn't working out for you, then you can keep doing the same things-or you can make a change for the better. Hope Not Nope challenges the dogma that humas are fragile and vulnerable, planting the seeds for robustness and resilience. We can't choose what happens to us in life - but we can choose how we respond to it!"--Back...

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"With the proliferation of social media, the intense pressure to succeed, and our overreliance on external rewards, metrics, and validation, FOPO is running rampant. Our concern with what other people think about us has become an irrational, unproductive, and unhealthy obsession in the modern world. And its negative effects reach into all aspects of our lives. In The First Rule of Mastery, Michael Gervais shows us the key to leading a high-performance...