|
Please Wait. Checking Prices.....
Compare Book Prices and get the Cheapest UK Price for 'The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything' by Professor Michael Puett. |
Are our stores safe?
Before we add any store to our price scanning software we
carefully check that is a reliable and safe retailer. All our stores use secure
socket layer (SSL) technology to prevent your credit card information from
being stolen. They are also all members of major affiliate networks and have
reasonable trading, returns and privacy policies. You can buy with confidence
at any of the stores we check.
|
Description | Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? It's because the course challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish. This is why Professor Michael Puett says to his students, The encounter with these ideas will change your life. As one of them told his collaborator, author Christine Gross-Loh, You can open yourself up to possibilities you never imagined were even possible. These astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them. Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back. Excellence comes from what we choose to do, not our natural abilities. A good life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments. Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities. In other words, [this book] upends everything we are told about how to lead a good life. Above all, unlike most books on the subject, its most radical idea is that there is no path to follow in the first place-- just a journey we create anew at every moment by seeing and doing things differently. Sometimes voices from the past can offer possibilities for thinking afresh about the future--Amazon.com. | Release Date | 2016 | Author | Michael J. Puett Christine Gross-Loh | Format | Dimensions 14.4x22.2x2.4 cm 204 pages book | Publisher | Penguin Books | Subject(s) | History / Asia / China History / Social History Philosophy / Eastern Self-Help / General Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational Self-Help / Personal Growth / General |
Where delivery prices can be checked live they are. If this is not possible then our most recent record of the stores standard UK delivery is used. These are updated regularly. All prices are meant as a guide and are in no way legally binding.
|
|
| | | | Last Updated 29/03/2024 at 04:00. |
|
|
|