The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) | Paul Watzlawick

The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) | Paul Watzlawick | A really amusing and tale-telling reading

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	The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) Paul Watzlawick W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 - 126 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Funny and insightful!

This book is such a joy to read! It is one of the funniest books I have read and yet we learn so much about ourselves with it! It shows us how we create much of the unhappiness that we experience and in an indirect way, how we can step out of it. If you want to learn more about consciousness and how it relates to our happiness, read "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is not as funny but it tells us more about how consciousness works in a simple way. I think you will like it.

A really amusing and tale-telling reading

The author extracts from his extensive practice and writing in the field of communication theory an amusing list of "technics" people use to make their own lives miserable. They span from the avoidance of things that could solve one's own problems to the dual tendency to insist focusing on what cannot be reached; to projecting one's prejudices on others like when one wants to ask something fearing it will not be given and thus putting in act behaviours that forster just that reaction.

All in all the feeling that one gets from the book is that we do not need terrorism, wars, discriminations, torture, presidents of the United States or Osamas... all that is needed to make ourselves unhappy is already inside ourselves - thus, and here comes the positive message, it is there that it may, and must, be cured.

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No doubt, it is a great book!

I read it long time ago. I ran into it recently and bought it because I want to have it on my bookshelf. Thanks!

Hopelessly funny

Wonderfuly witty and insightful. I bought the book largely because I couldn't resist the title and I wasn't disappointed.

A little disappointing.

Paul Watzlawick has written some really exceptional material, but I found this book to be less so. I did finally get a very useful insight near the end, but I felt like I was going through a lot of repetitive material. Kind of like a long run for a short slide. For a more enjoyable read by the same author, try "Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution." For me his best was "How Real is Real? (An Anecdotal Introduction to Communication Theory)" , now out of print and a classic.

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