{"product_id":"the-art-of-failure-the-anti-self-help-guide-1","title":"The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat is success, and is it worth the sacrifice? A psychiatrist and philosopher searches for a better, freer way of living.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWe spend our lives striving: for achievement, status, wealth, recognition, security. We devote our best years to getting ahead, often without asking what ‘getting ahead’ is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eIn the pursuit of success, we neglect friendship, love, contemplation, wonder, and freedom. We become accomplished, yet somehow diminished. We succeed in the eyes of the world, but fail in ways that are harder to name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eIn \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Art of Failure\u003c\/em\u003e, psychiatrist and philosopher Neel Burton explores this tension at the heart of modern life. Drawing on psychology, philosophy, literature, and lived experience, he turns to questions we usually avoid rather than answer: fear and courage, madness and sanity, death and meaning, happiness and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWhat emerges is not a system or doctrine, but a slow unsettling of assumptions. The idea that success is always good begins to look less certain. The idea that failure is always bad begins to look less simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWide-ranging, provocative, and quietly unsettling, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Art of Failure\u003c\/em\u003e is not a guide to doing better. It is an invitation to wonder whether ‘better’ has been correctly defined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFor anyone who has ever suspected that achievement alone is not enough, this book offers a way of thinking that does not rush to consolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDr Neel Burton FRSA is a psychiatrist and philosopher. He is a Fellow of Green-Templeton College in the University of Oxford, and the recipient of several book prizes. His work features regularly in the likes of Aeon and Psychology Today, and has been translated into several languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eEditorial reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eBrilliant. Neel Burton has already won several prizes … and this volume deserves another.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—The British Medical Association Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA unique perspective…. Neel Burton delivers on the provocative and intriguing promise inherent in this work’s title…\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—The BookLife Prize (Quarter-finalist)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn this eye-opening read, psychiatrist Neel Burton explains… that by redefining what it means to achieve, we can avoid failure and gain control over our lives.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—BookBub (Featured New Release)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIf you want to re-examine your life and goals and perhaps find deep happiness, this book can help you get there.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—Tammy Ruggles for Readers’ Favorite\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA demanding, provocative and ultimately transformative read. Give it a try and see how you get on.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e—The International Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e1. Mania\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e2. Freedom\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e3. Fear\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e4. Courage\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e5. Death\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e6. Values\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e7. Kings\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e8. Ghosts\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e9. Madness\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e10. Meaning\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e11. Happiness\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e12. Ataraxia\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e13. Friendship\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e14. Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.777778em; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA book for anyone willing to reconsider what success has been asking of them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acheron Press","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":67235816210736,"sku":"9781913260286","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-art-of-failure-the-anti-self-help-guide-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}