Description
The Underachiever's Manifesto is the playfully persuasive pocket guide to living life to the least and loving it. This isn't your average handbook--this is a funny self-help book for our ongoing modern age of overachievement. The book makes the case for just the right amount of effort--a lot less than we've been led to believe--and reveals how mediocrity is the key to happiness at work, in relationships, dieting, exercise, investment, and more. - Contains easy-to-follow advice with gentle humor and genuine wisdom
- Addresses issues such as social media stress, FOMO, and the life-draining tragedy of tidying up
- Author Ray Bennett is a medical specialist in Seattle and a recovering overachiever This welcome new edition--revised just enough but not going overboard--brings its needed-now-more-than-ever perspective to our new era of fitness tracking, app overload, and tidying up. Turn it down a notch. Don't you feel better already? - Humorous but actually helpful--a rarity for self-help books
- Perfect for overachievers, underachievers, anyone looking for a funny, friendly way to take things down a notch
- Great for those who loved The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life by Gary John Bishop, and How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism by Stephen Guise
Author: Ray Bennett
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.10h x 4.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781452184630
ISBN10: 1452184631
BISAC Categories:
- Non-Classifiable | Non-Classifiable
- Humor | Form | Parodies
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | General
- Addresses issues such as social media stress, FOMO, and the life-draining tragedy of tidying up
- Author Ray Bennett is a medical specialist in Seattle and a recovering overachiever This welcome new edition--revised just enough but not going overboard--brings its needed-now-more-than-ever perspective to our new era of fitness tracking, app overload, and tidying up. Turn it down a notch. Don't you feel better already? - Humorous but actually helpful--a rarity for self-help books
- Perfect for overachievers, underachievers, anyone looking for a funny, friendly way to take things down a notch
- Great for those who loved The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life by Gary John Bishop, and How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism by Stephen Guise
Author: Ray Bennett
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.10h x 4.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781452184630
ISBN10: 1452184631
BISAC Categories:
- Non-Classifiable | Non-Classifiable
- Humor | Form | Parodies
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | General
About the Author
Ray Bennett, M.D., is a medical specialist in Seattle and a recovering overachiever. He is still guilty of overachievement in the care of his patients, however, and he lives with his wife and children among too many overachieving neighbors.