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The Sweet Spot

The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

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?This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.? ?Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021"
From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives
Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from?
Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow.
But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists?a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty?and worse than that, boring.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
02. November 2021
Sprache
englisch
Auflage
Internationale Ausgabe (US)
Seitenanzahl
xxvii
Autor/Autorin
Paul Bloom
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
270 g
Größe (L/B/H)
207/137/21 mm
Sonstiges
Trade PB
ISBN
9780063214200

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Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. His research explores the psychology of morality, identity, and pleasure. Bloom is the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including, most recently, the million-dollar Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. He has written for scientific journals such as  Nature and Science, and for the  New York Times, the  New Yorker, and the  Atlantic Monthly. He is the author or editor of eight books, including  Against Empathy, Just Babies,   How Pleasure Works,   Descartes’ Baby, and, most recently,   The Sweet Spot.

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