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9781394169856

Getting Over Ourselves Moving Beyond an Age of Burnout, Loneliness, and Narcissism

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    9781394169856

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    139416985X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2023-12-07
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Summary

How we move beyond burnout culture in an age of loneliness and instead reconnect with our deepest humanity and become authentic leaders

We’ve reached a tipping point. Today’s ecologically and socially precarious world is calling for new solutions to old problems. But at this time of urgency the Millennial Generation, the largest generation in the United States, is faltering. Strapped with unprecedented student debt and suffering from the double-punch of recent financial crises, the Millennial cohort of 72.1 million Americans is called a new “Lost Generation.” And these economic struggles have been accompanied by a crisis in mental health. Most self-help books that encourage individuals to “hack” life–to produce more and achieve more, even to “adult” more–are not meeting the needs of our time and may be part of the problem rather than the solution. Getting Over Ourselves shows people how they can orient to something beyond the endless and exhausting striving of achievement-oriented culture. It simultaneously offers a reprieve from burnout and a provocative call to move beyond the status-quo to tackle the problems of our time.

This book challenges the premise of the self-help genre–namely, that there is a separate, solitary self in need of constant improvement. Rather, it identifies our generation’s preoccupation with self-improvement as a source of their suffering and uses developmental psychology to guide members of this generation toward a new level of maturity—one that reconnects them with their deepest humanity and their greatest potential to lead in a troubled world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Urgency to Get Over Our Selves

Chapter 1: A World on Edge

Paradise Burning

Stressed to Death

A Failed Prediction

Keynes vs. Hayek

The Heart and Soul of Neoliberalism

Chapter 2: Lost Heroes

Selfie Generation

Lonely Generation

Burnout Generation

Lost Generation

Another Failed Prediction?

Chapter 3: Spirals of Change

What was Enlightenment?

From Enlightenment to the Dog Whisperer

Tracing the Path of Human Development

The Self-Sovereign Opportunist

The Socialized Diplomat and Expert

The Self-Authoring Achiever

Toxic Achieverism

Spiral to Arc

Chapter 4: Wandering at an Apex

The Self-Questioning Transformer

Navigating the Postmodern Terrain

Neoliberal Quicksand

Destroy this Model

Slipping through the Cracks

Part II: Un-Self Help

Chapter 5: Selfies and Self-Realization

Guidepost #1: From Self-perfection to the Wisdom of Humility

Narcissism as Mistaken Identity

Default Mode

Narrative vs. Minimal Self

The True Meaning of Humility

The Richness of Self-Realization

Anchoring in the Practice of Embodiment

Chapter 6: Loneliness and Oneness

Guidepost #2: From Separateness to the Wisdom of Interdependence

Physical Interdependence: Bodies of Multitudes

Psychological Interdependence: The Resonant Brain

Spiritual Interdependence: The Garment of Destiny

Anchoring in the Practice of Connection

Chapter 7: Burnout and Wholeheartedness

Guidepost #3: From Rationality to the Wisdom of Vulnerability

When Your Heart’s Not in It

Heart as Escape Hatch

Mark of the Valkyries

Real Compassion

Vulnerable Confidence

The Heart of Yes and No

Anchoring in the Practice of Courage

Chapter 8: Lost and Liberated

Guidepost #4: From Progress to the Wisdom of Openness

Dare to Not Know

Staying with Uncertainty

The Cure in Curiosity

Relaxing into Insight

The Mindful Brain

The Modern Mindfulness Trap

Anchoring in the Practice of Wonder

Part III: Concluding and Beginning

Chapter 9: Friends between Worlds

Calling All Builders

Power in Diversity, Diversity in Power

Moving Slowly

Listening Deeply

Loving Fiercely

I Don’t Want to Move to Mars

Room for Alternatives

Heroes of Belonging

Notes

References

Recommended Reading

About the Author

Index

Supplemental Materials

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