Better Living Through Selective Apathy is your helpful guide to achieving a healthy and balanced life. Making a conscious decision about what is worth caring about helps us to understand the reasons why we have stress and anxiety in the first place, and how to avoid the majority of stress-causing variables in our daily life.
We are bombarded with ‘daily atrocities’ from every direction. Every one of these are molehills we are expected to turn into mountains, but doing so only strands us in a mountain range from which there is no escape. We cannot be effective in coping with problems or creating necessary change in our world when we are spread in too many directions. Better Living Through Selective Apathy does not mean refusing to care about anything. It is learning to step back and objectively examine every piece of information we have presented to us, and determining an appropriate response instead of having a knee-jerk reaction. It is being selective with which molehills we make into the mountains we can successfully cross. It is selecting to be apathetic to the drama others try to create in our lives. It is selecting to be apathetic to religious and political extremism. It is selecting to be apathetic to the problems of xenophobia, intolerance, cruelty, and dwelling unnecessarily on either the past or the future. It is your guide to a more stoic approach to life, helping to reduce anxiety and stress.
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Contents
Preface iv
Introduction vi
1 Why do you care? 1
2 You Are Going to Die 13
3 The World Sucks 20
4 You Are So Full of Crap 34
5 You Are Useless 45
6 You Are a Failure 67
7 Quit Telling Me What to Do 77
8 Is This the Hill You Want to Die On? 89
9 You Are All Gullible Idiots 92
10 Oh, Good God. 99
11 You Are Different, and That’s Bad 107
12 Antisocial Media 120
13 The Power of Meh 129
14 Conclusion 136
Mengenai Pengarang
M.C. Alexander is a multi-genre author of fiction and self-improvement books. He has spent decades in the fields of classical music and photography, and continues to enjoy various side projects in both fields. He has written everything from software manuals to novels, and enjoys reading the work of both mainstream and independent authors. He currently resides in the northeastern United States along with his beloved wife.
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