The Sleepwalker's Dilemma: Comfortable Lie or Liberating Truth
Book Details
Author(s)Kiet Cheng
ISBN / ASINB019H2KV0A
ISBN-13978B019H2KV08
Sales Rank2,076,405
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
After all this time, why do humans still struggle to find happiness? Despite rapid advances in technology, we're still a species plagued by anger, despair, poor choices, and broken relationships. This wretched state of affairs demands some hard questions: are we really as smart and civilized as we pretend to be? How much can we really shape our futures? Why is ignorance and poor decision-making so common? Why do we expect to find happiness in behaviors that have only brought us misery before?
Most importantly: what can we do to transform our society into a community that revolves around common sense, compassion, fulfillment, and joy?
Kiet Cheng has spent years studying these questions and more. With practice, he has been able to cast off the burdens of guilt, resentment, hate, anger, and regret. His mission now is to share this knowledge with you, so you can experience the same feeling of lightness and happiness.
With keen insights, sarcastic humor, and striking personal anecdotes, The Sleepwalkers' Dilemma draws from philosophy, biology, psychology, and other disciplines to explain how simple ignorance keeps us from improving ourselves and the world. Offering an unapologetic challenge to reclaim our intelligence, Cheng outlines how people live at the mercy of multiple "masters", while they simultaneously buy into the myth that they're in control of their every thought and decision.
More than just a wake-up call -- although self-reflection and self-improvement are inevitable once you dive in -- the book also includes Cheng's top tips for ending conflicts, and a vision of what the world will be like when we at last break the bonds of ignorance.
Get ready to become "life smart"! Learn what really motivates human beings, embrace the challenge of The Sleepwalkers' Dilemma, and take a step toward happiness.
Most importantly: what can we do to transform our society into a community that revolves around common sense, compassion, fulfillment, and joy?
Kiet Cheng has spent years studying these questions and more. With practice, he has been able to cast off the burdens of guilt, resentment, hate, anger, and regret. His mission now is to share this knowledge with you, so you can experience the same feeling of lightness and happiness.
With keen insights, sarcastic humor, and striking personal anecdotes, The Sleepwalkers' Dilemma draws from philosophy, biology, psychology, and other disciplines to explain how simple ignorance keeps us from improving ourselves and the world. Offering an unapologetic challenge to reclaim our intelligence, Cheng outlines how people live at the mercy of multiple "masters", while they simultaneously buy into the myth that they're in control of their every thought and decision.
More than just a wake-up call -- although self-reflection and self-improvement are inevitable once you dive in -- the book also includes Cheng's top tips for ending conflicts, and a vision of what the world will be like when we at last break the bonds of ignorance.
Get ready to become "life smart"! Learn what really motivates human beings, embrace the challenge of The Sleepwalkers' Dilemma, and take a step toward happiness.
