How Should We Live?

Buchzusammenfassung

Social philosopher Roman Krznaric writes about the influence of ideas. More than 25 languages have translated his books, and he founded the first empathy museum in history. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Center for Eudaimonia and Human Development.

It can be hard to master the modern art of living. However, as we learn more about how our ancestors lived, we can return to some helpful practices and use them, such as rethinking romantic paradigms, challenging ourselves and our beliefs, getting back in touch with nature, embracing our inner creativity, only spending money on what we really need and confronting taboos associated with death. In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “He who cannot draw on three thousand years of history is living from hand to mouth.” Resist the social tide. Better living examples in these bites all share one thing: it requires us to challenge prevailing conventions. By scrutinizing our perceptions and stepping away from conventions, we can learn to create a way of living that is right for us.

"Empathy is a constant awareness of the fact that your concerns are not everyone’s concerns and that your needs are not everyone’s needs."

"The most emotionally corrosive form of regret occurs when we fail to take action on something that matters deeply to us."

"It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act."

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