The Art of Taking It Easy
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In the vein of the Mark Manson’s Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck , the book is a cheeky and unconventional entry into the self-help genre and takes a humorous approach to mental health and self-care.Timeliness of book—more Americans identify as stressed-out every year, with eight in ten Americans reporting that they are afflicted by stress, contributing to various public health crises: obesity, substance abuse, heart disease, and more.Author provides pragmatic stress-management techniques that can be applied to relationships, business, parenting, and more, and backs his advice with funny anecdotes.Hard science presented with humor makes for enjoyable, informative reading that is easily understandable for the layman.Author pulls from interviews with other comedians and mental health professionals, a US Navy Airman, and a financial advisor.Author travels extensively, speaking to over 10,000 people annually on humor and mental health.Author is a stand-up comic with a PhD in psychology.
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Brian King. The Art of Taking It Easy
Contents
Are You Happy?
1
Of Bears and Traffic
What Happens in Our Head During Stress?
Worry Is the Worst
What Happens to Our Bodies During Stress?
Negative Emotions and the Stress That Inspires Them
2
Making Decisions Under Fire
It’s Never Too Late to Change
Crawling Up That Step
3
Having Goals and Making Plans
Feeling in Control, Even When We’re Not
Learning the Hard Way (Through an Unfortunate Series of Break-Ins)
4
Interview with a Real American Badass
5
The Choices We Make
Getting to the Gym Across the Street
6
Three Days in Xpujil (Jon’s Story)
7
Puzzles, Games, and Bear Attacks
Fostering Resilience in Children
8
Practicing Positive Thinking
Laughing It Off
Don’t Eat the Poison Berries
9
Feeling Overwhelmed and Exhausted
Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, But Misery Takes Credit
The Biggest Irony of My Modern Life
10
Facing Challenges
Carving a Carousel
Afterword
Pursuing Happiness
Acknowledgments
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But he would worry about it, and all weekend long. On Monday we would get our grades and he would either be pleasantly surprised or have his fears confirmed. Either way it went, his worrying all weekend did absolutely nothing to influence the outcome of the exam. He wasted his weekends, when he could have been wasted. Eventually he decided that college wasn’t for him, not because his grades were that bad, but because he couldn’t handle the stress.
And that’s the thing about worrying, it does nothing to prevent bad things from happening. Worrying does not affect the outcome of a situation, it doesn’t make adverse events less likely to occur, it just makes our life less great.
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