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We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment - from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to his universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art, and politics - and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries. The result is a book that is not only entertaining and thought-provoking - but genuinely wise and helpful as well.

Comparisonitis is a contagious, socially transmitted condition that occurs when you compare yourself to others so frequently and fiercely that you're left paralysed, with your confidence in tatters and your self-worth plummeting. It may sound trivial, but this affliction can have serious adverse effects on our mental health, leading to depression, anxiety, overthinking and regret. To make matters worse, our comparison culture is only expanding. Thanks to social media, we have more opportunities to compare ourselves than ever before, and even kids are falling into the trap.

Learn to master your inner voice with Pat Divilly's practical tools and examples on how you can free yourselves of your inner critic and drive your own behaviours. Everyone has two stories inside their head. One is about their life, the other is controlling that life. The one in control is your inner story. You create it in your mind about what it means to be you. Formed through childhood experience, culture and expectations, this inner story can hold us back and sabotage our attempts to achieve the things we want.

Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences but slowly from the good ones. You can change this. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. Dr. Hanson’s four steps build strengths into your brain, balancing its ancient negativity bias, making contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal.

Everyone has those difficult blank moments sometimes. Whether in your personal life, career or relationship or in a public situation, writer's block, social anxiety, imposter syndrome, being off-form or having an identity crisis can affect anyone at any time. It's part of the human condition, and yet it can throw us off course and make us feel helpless. Giles Paley-Phillips and Jim Daly host an informal, insightful podcast in which they chat to well-known people from comedy, acting, writing, broadcasting, politics and sports about their careers and how they get through these moments.

Do you feel stuck for words at crucial moments? Do you find you haven't really been heard? Does your communication let you down? Talk is our key tool for moving forward in every aspect of our life. Yet how often do you feel you've missed an opportunity or failed to express what mattered most to you? Whether you need to talk with your partner about a relationship problem or to your boss about your career, this book will give you the know-how to achieve your goals.

Most of us would rather be caught naked than have our finances open to view. Why are we so reluctant to engage properly and effectively with something so fundamental? Melissa Browne challenges us to change our thinking and our bank balances for the better. With clear, easy to follow advice, she tells you how to set up savvy savings accounts, make the right investments and discover why budgeting is a dirty word. Learn to financially adult and become not just financially unf*cked...but financially well.

Minimalism is not just a series of actions but also a total mind-set shift. It recognises that modern-day abundance has not increased our level of happiness - in fact we are less happy than generations before despite having more - and it argues that embracing less will allow us to live more fully. This handbook gives us the tools to achieve this complete life-changing mental shift, teaching us how to search for items and thoughts that add value to our lives and how to get rid of nonessential physical and mental clutter.

How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting approach to self-improvement for women, one that offers no-crap truth telling about the most common self-destructive behaviours women tend to engage in. From the bitchy inner critic and imposter complex to the prison of perfectionism, Andrea Owen - an internationally sought-after life coach - distils what’s behind the 14 silent habits that are holding women back from experiencing life to the fullest and provides a road map for overcoming them.

Tricia Brennan is an acclaimed intuitive counselor with the capacity to read people based on her clairaudient, clairsentient, and clairvoyant abilities. In Looking Beyond the Mirror, Tricia gives an insider's view of what goes on beneath the facade of a select group of people who have risen above mediocrity to create extraordinary lives.

We are a society that no longer takes mental health for granted. We’ve come a long way from the ‘get over it’ mentality that forced many of us to try to deal with our problems alone. Treatment options have become better and more sophisticated, and we now work actively to prevent mental health conditions. Healthy self-worth is essential for good mental health. Someone with healthy self-worth is more likely to have better coping skills, greater resilience and the ability to maintain long-term positive mental health.