How We Break
Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living
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Narrateur(s):
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Vincent Deary
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Vincent Deary
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An expert, empathetic guide to the science, psychology and physiology of breaking, from the acclaimed author of How We Are
What happens when our minds and bodies are pushed beyond their limits? Vincent Deary is a health psychologist who has spent years helping his patients cope with whatever life has thrown at them. In How We Break, he has written a book for all of us who sometimes feel we have reached our breaking point.
Drawing on clinical case studies, cutting-edge scientific research, intimate personal stories and references from philosophy, literature and film, How We Break offers a consoling new vision of everyday human struggle. The big traumas in life, Deary points out, are relatively rare. More common is when too many things go wrong at once, or we are exposed to prolonged periods of difficulty or precarity. When the world shrinks to nothing but our daily coping, we become unhappy, worried, hopeless, exhausted. In other words, we break. Breaking, he shows us, happens when the same systems that enable us to navigate through life become dysregulated. But if we understand how the wear and tear of life affects us, then we have a better chance of navigating through times of burnout, stress, fatigue and despair.
By equipping us with a better understanding of what happens to us when we're struggling to cope, and making a bold case for the power of rest and recuperation, How We Break helps chart a path through difficult times.
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©2024 Vincent Deary (P)2024 Penguin AudioThis felt less like a useful exploration of cumulative stress and more like a self-inflated literary philosophical performance. The writing is wordy, repetitive, and increasingly grating, as if the author were more focused on sounding profound than on actually communicating something clearly or helpfully.
What frustrated me most was how often the same ideas were revisited without adding anything new. It became sickeningly repetitive, to the point where I found myself tuning out just to get through it.
There were also numerous biblical references, which came as an unpleasant surprise since this framing isn’t made clear in the book’s description. For me, that crossed from illustrative into intrusive and distracting.
I don’t doubt the author’s intelligence or intentions, but this book seems aimed at readers who enjoy abstract, philosophical, “literary” writing. If you’re looking for clarity, grounding, or something that respects the reader’s limited energy, this likely won’t be it.
Disappointing. Not because the topic lacks value, but because the book prioritizes style over substance.
In a word - pompous
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