Missing out
Subtitle: in praise of the unlived life
By: Adam Phillips
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780374281113
Subjects: Self-perception; Self-actualization (Psychology)
Description: Offers advice for letting go of ideas about how life might have been in order to make the most of what life has to offer in the here and now by embracing failure, frustration, and other apparently negative, but necessary, elements of our lives.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: On frustration; title: On not getting it; title: On getting away with it; title: On getting out of it; title: On satisfaction; title: Appendix; title: On acting madness; title: Acknowledgements.