Enough
Subtitle: breaking free from the world of more
By: John Naish
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780340935903; 9780340935910
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Sustainable living; Conduct of life; Self-realization
Description: For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase even more. It's how we survived famine, disease and disaster to colonise the world. But now, thanks to technology, we've suddenly got more of everything than we can ever use, enjoy or afford. That doesn't stop us from striving though, and it's making us sick, tired, overweight, angry and in debt. It burns up our personal ecologies and the planet's ecology too. We urgently need to develop a sense of 'enough'. Our culture keeps telling us that we don't yet have all we need to be happy, but in fact we need to nurture a new skill - the ability to bask in the bounties all around us. In Enough, John Naish explores how our Neolithic brain-wiring spurs us to build a world of overabundance that keeps us hooked on 'more'. And he explains how, through adopting the art of enoughness, we can break from this wrecking cycle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: ENOUGH information -- -- 2.; title: ENOUGH food -- -- 3.; title: ENOUGH stuff -- -- 4.; title: ENOUGH work -- -- 5.; title: ENOUGH options -- -- 6.; title: ENOUGH happiness -- -- 7.; title: ENOUGH growth -- -- 8.; title: Never-enoughs.