{"product_id":"aliveness-1","title":"Aliveness","description":"From the international bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals comes a new way to engage with life: aliveness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If there are two people who have changed my life then one of them is Oliver Burkeman  PANDORA SYKES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it  MARK MANSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oliver is a steersman through sanity and must be read  DERREN BROWN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bold successor to Four Thousand Weeks, Aliveness offers its reader, once again, a radically fresh way of engaging with life. It is Oliver Burkeman s bracing answer to a widely shared, if only half-articulated, discontent: the feeling that in these alarming and uncertain times, something vital has drained out of our everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAliveness is the name of that missing quality: a feeling of vibrancy, clarity, connection and immediacy that s essential for living an accomplished and creative life and a life that makes a difference in this deeply unsettling era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAliveness is what makes life worth living. It isn t the same as happiness, because you can feel alive in the midst of challenge or sadness. It s a quality AI and the robots will never have; it s what they can t fake. And our current sense of overwhelm, perma-crisis and threat definitely erodes it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so, in an age of doomerism and algorithmic predictability, Oliver Burkeman shows us that the problem isn t our lack of control but, rather, our desperate clinging to it. His invitation is to unclench , physically and psychologically, so as to step out of the defensive crouch in which we usually meet the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, with this book Burkeman shows us how by learning to relax into reality, embracing spontaneity and imperfect agency, and trusting our own idiosyncratic interests and desires we can find our way back to feeling more fully and exhilaratingly alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Oliver Burkeman s previous books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Full of wisdom and comfort  CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living  EMMA GANNON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every sentence is riven with gold  CHRIS EVANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful  MARIAN KEYES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A practical path towards personal transformation a must read  CAL NEWPORT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bracing and refreshing Exactly what our trying times demand  DANIEL H. PINK","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58471993278799,"sku":"9781847927606","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781847927606_1-aliveness.jpg?v=1786664802","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/aliveness-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}