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The Intelligent Optimist's Guide to Life: How to Find Health and Success in a World That's a Better Place Than You Think (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Tapa blanda

Kamp, Jurriaan

 
9781626562752: The Intelligent Optimist's Guide to Life: How to Find Health and Success in a World That's a Better Place Than You Think (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business)
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ISBN 10: 162656275X ISBN 13: 9781626562752
Editorial: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014

Sinopsis

The world isn’t coming to an end, contrary to what you may have heard, says Jurriaan Kamp. Certainly there’s upheaval and economic, political, and social instability, but the media’s near-exclusive focus on conflict and disaster means that the progress and everyday acts of brilliance taking place across the globe go unnoticed, which contributes to the sense that apocalypse is at hand.

And pessimism can be fatal: Kamp cites research showing that those who indulge in negative thinking are more likely to smoke, be overweight, and have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease than optimists. Meanwhile, evidence abounds that optimism—intelligent optimism, not a rose-colored-glasses brand of wishful thinking—is good not only for your mind but for your body, too.

Kamp demonstrates that, on the whole, we’re living longer, becoming smarter, working less, and growing richer. Democracy is on the rise, and violence is declining. He explains how we can cultivate an outlook of informed optimism that will make our lives and the world better—because, as he quotes Helen Keller, “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

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Jurriaan Kamp and his wife, Hélène de Puy, cofounded The Intelligent Optimist magazine (formerly Ode). Prior to that, Kamp was an editor and correspondent in South Asia and chief economics editor at the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. He is the author of Small Change: How Fifty Dollars Can Change the World and Because People Matter: Building an Economy That Works for Everyone.

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Editorial
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Año de publicación
2014
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ISBN 10 
162656275X
ISBN 13 
9781626562752
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Número de páginas
112
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