The Resource How we are, Vincent Deary
How we are, Vincent Deary
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The item How we are, Vincent Deary represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
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- Summary
- We live in small worlds. An astonishing literary debut and the first book in the monumental How To Live trilogy, How We Are explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. A story told in three parts, this profound and ambitious trilogy gets right to the heart of what it means to be human: how we work, how we break, and how we mend. As Vincent Deary shows us, we live most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of more or less comfortable routine - what he calls Act One. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But inevitably, from within or without, something will come along to disturb our small worlds - some News From Elsewhere. And with ingrained reluctance, we begin the work of adjustment: Act Two. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has been a witness to the theatre of change - the way that ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and eventually transform their lives and get better. He is also keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists have. Drawing on his own personal experience, and a staggering range of literary, philosophical and cultural sources, Deary has produced a mesmerizing and universal portrait of the human condition. Part psychologist, part philosopher, part novelist, Deary helps us to see how we can resist being mere habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own
- Language
- eng
- Label
- How we are
- Title
- How we are
- Statement of responsibility
- Vincent Deary
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- We live in small worlds. An astonishing literary debut and the first book in the monumental How To Live trilogy, How We Are explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. A story told in three parts, this profound and ambitious trilogy gets right to the heart of what it means to be human: how we work, how we break, and how we mend. As Vincent Deary shows us, we live most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of more or less comfortable routine - what he calls Act One. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But inevitably, from within or without, something will come along to disturb our small worlds - some News From Elsewhere. And with ingrained reluctance, we begin the work of adjustment: Act Two. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has been a witness to the theatre of change - the way that ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and eventually transform their lives and get better. He is also keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists have. Drawing on his own personal experience, and a staggering range of literary, philosophical and cultural sources, Deary has produced a mesmerizing and universal portrait of the human condition. Part psychologist, part philosopher, part novelist, Deary helps us to see how we can resist being mere habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Deary, Vincent
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- How to live
- Series volume
- 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Habit
- Philosophical anthropology
- Conduct of life
- Change (Psychology)
- Human beings
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- How we are, Vincent Deary
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 39623622
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780241005385
- Media category
- unmediated
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 39623622
- (Sirsi) 39623622
- Label
- How we are, Vincent Deary
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 39623622
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780241005385
- Media category
- unmediated
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 39623622
- (Sirsi) 39623622
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