出版社: Ecco
副标题: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
出版年: 2021-11-2
页数: 302
定价: USD 24.99
装帧: 平装
ISBN: 9780062910561
内容简介 · · · · · ·
“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
From the author of Against Empat...
“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
From the author of Against Empathy comes a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives
Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from?
Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow.
But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists—a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty—and worse than that, boring.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. He is the author of "How Children Learn the Meanings of Words," "Descartes’ Baby" and "How Pleasure Works." He has contributed to The Atlantic, the New York Times, Science, and Nature. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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3 有用 untamedheart 2021-11-07 15:05:22
带着问题看的书,解答了一部分,但作者的agenda 和我的问题不完全重合(当然), 信息密度不够 (far from the tree之后bar被抬太高了) 。但依然是有很多解答了问题的部分,也很能和经历关联。最后作者一本正经的证明做苏格拉底当然比做猪强的几段也太可爱了。
1 有用 绎如 2021-12-26 15:31:17
希望能尽快找到痛苦、价值和满足适当组合的sweet spot。
2 有用 Billyboyzy 2022-01-01 12:32:44
两年前Paul Bloom来系里演讲,提到自己正在写一本关于suffering与pleasure的书,因为一直对相关话题很感兴趣,所以十分期待。前些天看见朋友的书评,才意识到已经出版了。整本书围绕两点展开:痛苦与快感的关系,以及它们如何构筑理想生活,作者的讨论涉及范围很广,从积极心理学到艺术再到宗教,引用的研究也清晰明了。但整本的结构不甚清晰,内容时常文不对题,作为科普作品来说是不合格的。总的来说... 两年前Paul Bloom来系里演讲,提到自己正在写一本关于suffering与pleasure的书,因为一直对相关话题很感兴趣,所以十分期待。前些天看见朋友的书评,才意识到已经出版了。整本书围绕两点展开:痛苦与快感的关系,以及它们如何构筑理想生活,作者的讨论涉及范围很广,从积极心理学到艺术再到宗教,引用的研究也清晰明了。但整本的结构不甚清晰,内容时常文不对题,作为科普作品来说是不合格的。总的来说比较失望。 (展开)
2 有用 califlo 2022-01-18 13:06:06
抱着开放的心态来的,也知道会有很多不认同的地方,结果还是很失望,内容、结构和素材上都是
0 有用 salty yuzu 2022-06-27 05:22:01
一开始觉得精妙,谁知作者的思维越来越发散叙事也越来越啰嗦... too many digressions