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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.

'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two)....' Based on three connected talks on the subject of attention, this audiobook from Adam Phillips is a fascinating and memorable introduction to the nature and the uses of our attention....

Este libro te presenta las habilidades básicas necesarias para convertirte en un maestro manipulador. Aprende a su vez a mentir, a justificar tus fechorías más viles, a manejar tu imagen para manipular mejor a tus víctimas y a adivinarlas para que puedas abusar mejor de ellas. Y a lo largo de tu lectura, las personas que conoces te ofrecerán consejos que confirman los principios presentados. Entre ellos, dice Donald Trump, presidente de los Estados Unidos de América y un consumado maestro en el arte de la manipulación. Pero habrá otros que también descubrirás.

This book introduces you to the basic skills needed to become a master manipulator. Learn in turn how to lie, how to justify your vilest misdeeds, how to manage your image to better manipulate your victims and how to guess them so that you can better abuse them. Your losing days are over. You will now be able to abuse your landlord, your friends, the government, your family members, your colleagues, your employees, your customers, insurance companies, your suppliers, your constituents, the people you meet, and everyone else you envy.