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Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a loss of calm - and a descent into anxiety and agitation. Surprisingly, but very fortunately, our power to remain calm can be rehearsed and improved. We don’t have to stay where we are now: our responses to everyday challenges can dramatically alter. This is a book that patiently unpacks the causes of our greatest stresses and gives us a succession of arguments with which to defend ourselves against panic and fury.

Love has a history and we ride - sometimes rather helplessly - on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love. Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love.

Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say ‘no’ to a child you adore, how to look beneath the surface of ‘bad’ behavior to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence.

Esta é uma coletânea de algumas das ideias mais importantes encontradas na obra dos filósofos, teóricos políticos, sociólogos, artistas e romancistas que acreditamos ter mais a nos oferecer nos dias de hoje.

Ao lado de um bom relacionamento, ter uma carreira que amamos é um dos principais requisitos para uma vida plena. Infelizmente, é muito difícil entender nossos sentimentos a ponto de saber para onde deveríamos direcionar nossa energia. Para ajudar nesse impasse, escrevemos este guia, que ensina como conhecer melhor a si mesmo e encontrar o emprego certo. Com compaixão e espírito profundamente prático, este audiolivro vai ajudar você a descobrir seus verdadeiros talentos e identificar seus desejos e aspirações antes que seja tarde demais.

Poucas coisas nos prometem mais felicidade do que nossos relacionamentos—e poucas nos trazem tanto sofrimento e frustração. Nosso erro é supor que já nascemos sabendo amar e que, portanto, administrar um relacionamento deve ser fácil e intuitivo. Este livro parte de uma premissa diferente: o amor é uma habilidade a ser aprendida, não apenas uma emoção a ser sentida.

Poucas habilidades são tão importantes e ao mesmo tempo tão negligenciadas quanto a capacidade de manter a calma. Quase sempre, nossas piores decisões são tomadas em momentos em que perdemos a calma e nos deixamos dominar pela ansiedade e a agitação. Felizmente, nosso poder de permanecer calmos pode ser exercitado e aperfeiçoado.

Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realise that we have forgotten one of the party’s names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host’s sofa...

A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future. Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.

Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It’s because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack confidence in our social lives and suffer from anxiety, despair and imposter syndrome.

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness. It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It helps us navigate a wise and rational middle ground between extreme despair and naïve optimism. But melancholy is a well-kept secret. It isn't celebrated or recommended. It remains relatively unexplored in a hyper-competitive, noisy, frantic age.

This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing–in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of shame. This book encourages us to accept the role that failure plays for all of us and to feel compassion for ourselves for the messes we can’t help but make as we go through our lives.