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Chargement... Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Uspar Will Storr
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. “Less self-esteem, please. More self-discipline.” P 166. A re-hash and update of Century of the Self. Somewhat needlessly windy, but interesting analysis of the harm of the self-esteem movement, individual hero myth, and neurotic need for perfectionism. So this book unashamedly started with a hook, an opportunity that any good writer would be a fool to pass over... unless you were unable to, at your conclusion, bring the book full circle again which, unfortunately, he didn't. He has some interesting ideas that seem to connect in valid ways but the personal interludes could have been better planned/ executed. His little retreat... why? So, in sum, the information was interesting, but the overall arch and personal connections didn't always work. Additionally, he was rather fond of language that I'm not. Finished this yesterday and MIND. BLOWN. I read it for the Convocation for the college I work at & he is speaking at this week, & I'm so glad I did. I enjoyed the scientific support he chose that was nicely balanced with his honest and clever personal commentary. It was like a conversation with that one friend who is always 1 (or 12) steps ahead on a topic (and believe me, it was like a conversation -- I kept talking to the book & wrote all over it). 5⭐️& Librarian Stamp of Approval™️ #NeuroticsUnite! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"We are living in an age of heighted individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Out culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular--flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are. It was not always like this. To explain how we got here, award-winning journalist Will Storr takes us on a journey across continents and centuries to explore the origins of this notion of the perfect self that torments so many of us: Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell? Full of thrilling and unexpected connections among history, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and more, Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become. Ranging from Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, to the self-esteem evangelists of 1980s California, the rise of narcissism and the "selfie" generation, and right up to the era of hyper-individualism in which we live now, Selfie tells the epic tale of the person we all know so intimately--because it's us."--Dust jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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