How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times

How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times
Author: The School of Life
Publisher: School of Life Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781912891535

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked and self-absorbed. How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure.

How to Survive the Modern World

How to Survive the Modern World
Author: Life of School The
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781912891993

"A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked, and self-absorbed. How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental well-being. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient, and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure."--

Pause

Pause
Author: Summersdale Publishers
Publisher: Summersdale
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1787831833

I breathe in calm. I breathe out calm. Modern life can be fast-paced and stressful, so we all need a way to press ‘pause’ from time to time. With simple mindfulness techniques, self-care ideas, and easy ways to relax, this little book will be your pocket guide to finding moments of peace, reflection and calm in every day.

Avoiding Self Imposed Adversities

Avoiding Self Imposed Adversities
Author: Lawrence N Weston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977239891

The quotes in this book are designed to help you avoid self-imposed adversities by always thinking first of your options before your actions, in order to avoid permanent irreversible adverse consequences. The choices you make or fail to make will always impact the outcome of your future. A thousand thoughts before you act, is better than a thought after the fact, because it will be too late to react. Too many people impose adverse consequences on themselves and others by failing to think before they act. When you create a world of hate, you create a world stage for others to react in kind. You should always be mindful of your irreversible social media content before it is sent because it will be too late to retract after the fact. You will always have failure when you resort to inappropriate behavior. The best way to avoid self-imposed adversities is to think before you act, because your adverse past will always last, and impact the outcome of your future. When the gun becomes your voice it always sends a deadly message with innocent victims paying the ultimate price because of your gun vice. Distracted driving cost too many lives whether your own or others unknown. Stop and think before you indulge in this victimization process. If you wait for the fall to feel the pain, you have had one too many preventable falls. You will always increase your separation gap with others when you burn your bridges in life. When you think the world is all about you, you only become an island on to yourself. When you think you are too big to fail, remember the Titanic ship's last sail. For additional self-preservation guidance, refer to adversity avoidance tips.

Early Humans and Their World

Early Humans and Their World
Author: Bo Gräslund
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134261357

Summarizing modern research on early hominid evolution from the apes six million years ago to the emergence of modern humans, this book is the first to present a synthetic discussion of many aspects of early human life.

Steps to the Sea

Steps to the Sea
Author: Julia Werntz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: Composition (Music)
ISBN: 9780945996132

Contains microtonal ear training and compositional exercises, and analysis. The process of ear training, understanding, and beginning to compose is broken down into manageable steps. Numerous audio examples are provided - the composition exercises beautifully performed by violist Mat Maneri, and the simple ear training drills with midi. (Steps to the Sea was originally published in Germany in 2014 by von Bockel Verlag as part of the book 1001 Microtones, edited by Sarvenaz Safari and Manfred Stahnke.)

The Things We Save

The Things We Save
Author: Joanne Zienty
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781500290832

A broken 45 rpm record held together with adhesive tape, a fading stack of Polaroids, a cobalt blue perfume bottle, and a braid of human hair … these are just some of the things Claire Sokol keeps stashed in an old Marshall Field's gift box. But how did they get there and what do they signify? If these relics could talk, what stories would they tell? The tale of a child torn between the bitter sermons of a troubled, troublesome mother and the honeyed praise of the beautiful, sophisticated woman who just might be her fairy godmother? Of an innocent girl and boy lost in a dark, forbidding forest of adult lies and deceit? Of a young woman fighting to save a beloved father from his worst enemy – himself? Of a young man's death, a tragedy from which to flee or a mystery to finally solve? The Things We Save tells the story of the ways, both subtle and brutal, that a family falls apart and the intimate struggle to put what remains back together. It asks provocative questions about the nature of love, the corrosive effects of envy and guilt, and the limits of forgiveness. The Things We Save is for anyone who has ever slammed out a door with the vow to never return, only to find his or her way back home again.

A Tree Called Morality

A Tree Called Morality
Author: Michael Tsaphah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781663201294

The Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil is the thing that caused mankind to make the moral judgments of right and wrong. Michael Tsaphah's new book will explain why we suffer on this earth because of this tree called morality. Also discussed is the word righteous and the difference between the carnal nature and the spiritual laws.

The Emotionally Intelligent Office

The Emotionally Intelligent Office
Author: The School of Life
Publisher: School of Life Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-11-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780995753587

An in-depth exploration of what really lies behind our problematic behavioural patterns in the workplace, and a blueprint for the emotional skills we need to overcome them. Modern businesses place huge emphasis on technical training. And yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of organisations has nothing to do with the sort of hard skills taught at business school; instead, it comes down to the degree of emotional intelligence circulating in the workplace. This is a book that introduces us to twenty core emotional skills that can help businesses to flourish. They range from giving honest feedback, to accepting that it's OK to fail, to addressing jealousies and insecurities within teams. We learn about how our childhoods continue to have an often unhelpful impact on how we deal with colleagues, and the best ways we might speak so that others will listen. The book is informed by the practical work that the Learning and Development division of The School of Life carries out, endeavouring to change the culture within organisations around the world through teaching teams the art of emotional intelligence. It shows us not only how to be a more effective worker, but a more well-balanced human too.

Earth Memories

Earth Memories
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789123674

Earth Memories is a wonderful collection of essays by the English writer Llewelyn Powys. These ‘love letters to the English Countryside’ manifest throughout great depth of nature lore and observation hand in hand with the author’s own personal pagan creed and commentary on places, people and things. This edition, which was first published in 1938, includes an Introduction by the American literary critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Van Wyck Brooks. “Wherever Llewelyn Powys has lived, his mind has always turned towards England, the homeland that haunts him like a passion. Under the stars in the African jungle, poring over Robert Burton, whose rhythms have left long traces in his style—a style that is often archaic and always rare in texture—he dreamed of English gardens. In New York, in the clattering streets, he would see the cuckoo perched singing on the top of Sandsfoot Castle. He can always regain serenity, he says in one of his essays, by thinking of the playground of his childhood, the pear trees of Montacute Vicarage. High as his fever may be, the memory of this enchanted ground quiets his pulse in a moment; and his pictures of England suggest the eye of the convalescent, as if the world had been reborn for him. They are full of an all but miraculous freshness.”—Van Wyck Brooks, Introduction